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The Pedophocracy
by David McGowan
The Pedophocracy, Part I: From Brussels ...
The Pedophocracy, Part II: ... to Washington
The Pedophocracy, Part III: Uncle Sam Wants Your Children
The Pedophocracy, Part IV: McMolestation
The Pedophocracy, Part V: It Couldn't Happen Here
The Pedophocracy, Part VI: Finders Keepers
The Pedophocracy, Part I: From Brussels ...
"Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose ... I am also a theologian and as a
theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of flesh, between people
... paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With
boldness, they can say, 'I believe this is in fact part of God's will.'"
Ralph Underwager, 'expert' witness for the defense in scores of child abuse cases and former vocal
member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, in an interview in Paidika (a pro-pedophilia
publication), conducted in June 1991
To the vast majority of Americans, the name Marc Dutroux doesn't mean much. Drop that name in
Belgium though and you're likely to elicit some very visceral reactions. Dutroux - convicted along with his
wife in 1989 for the rape and violent abuse of five young girls, the youngest of whom was just eleven -
now stands accused of being a key player in an international child prostitution and pornography ring
whose practices included kidnapping, rape, sadistic torture, and murder.
Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to thirteen years for his crimes, but was freed after having served just
three. This was in spite of the fact that, as prison governor Yvan Stuaert would later tell a parliamentary
commission: A medical report described him as a perverse psychopath, an explosive mix. He was an
evident danger to society.
The man who turned Dutroux loose on society, J ustice Minister Melchior Wathelet, soon after received a
prestigious appointment to serve as a judge at the European Court of J ustice at the Hague. Shortly after
Dutrouxs release, young girls began to disappear in the vicinity of some of his homes. Though technically
unemployed and drawing welfare from the state, he nevertheless owned at least six houses and lived quite
lavishly.
His rather lucrative income appears to have been derived from trading in child sex-slaves, child
prostitution, and child pornography. Many of his houses appeared to stand vacant, though at least some of
them were in fact used as torture and imprisonment centers where kidnapped girls were taken and held in
underground dungeons.
Some of Dutrouxs homes were used in this way for several years following his early release, with a
growing body of evidence to indicate that fact to the police. True to form though, authorities failed to act
on the information, or acted on it in a way that showed either complete incompetence (according to most
press reports), or police complicity in the operation (according to any sort of logic).
Police seem to have routinely ignored tips that later proved to be accurate, including a report from
Dutroux's own mother that her son was holding girls prisoner in one of his houses. In addition, key facts
were withheld from investigators working on the disappearances and lines of communication were
unaccountably broken, inexcusably hindering the investigation.
Police did search one of Dutroux's homes on no less than three separate occasions over the course of the
investigation. On at least two of those occasions, two of the missing girls were being held in heinous
conditions imprisoned in a custom-built dungeon in the basement. Nevertheless, the police searches came
up empty, despite the fact that the investigating officers reported hearing childrens voices on one
occasion, according to the Guardian.
It was not until August 13, 1996, four years after the disappearances began, that authorities arrested
Dutroux, along with his wife (an elementary school teacher), a lodger, a policeman, and a man the
Guardian described as an associate with political connections elsewhere identified as Michel Lelievre.
Two days later, police again searched Dutroux's home and discovered the soundproof dungeon/torture
center. As CNN reported, three years earlier police ignored tips from an informant who said Dutroux was
building secret cellars to hold girls before selling them abroad. And in 1995, the same informant had told
police that Dutroux had offered an unidentified third man the equivalent of $3,000 to $5,000 to kidnap
girls.
Incredibly, it was later reported by the Guardian that police actually had in their possession a videotape of
the dungeon being constructed: Belgian police could have saved the lives of two children allegedly
murdered by the paedophile Marc Dutroux if they had watched a video seized from his home which
showed him building their hidden cell. The tape had been seized in one of the earlier searches.
At the time of the final search, two fourteen-year-old girls were found imprisoned in the dungeon, chained
and starving. They described to police being used as child prostitutes and in the production of child
pornography videos. More than 300 such videos were taken into custody by the police.
On August 17, the story got grimmer as police dug up the bodies of two eight-year-old girls at another of
Dutroux's homes. It would later be learned that the girls had been kept in one of Dutrouxs dungeons for
nine months after their abductions, during which time they were repeatedly tortured and sexually
assaulted, all captured on videotape. The girls were then left to slowly starve to death. Alongside of their
decimated corpses was the body of Bernard Weinstein, a former accomplice of Dutroux who had occupied
one of the houses for several years. Weinstein had been buried alive.
A few weeks later, two more girls were found buried under concrete at yet another of the Dutroux
properties. By that time, ten people were reportedly in custody in connection to the case. Elsewhere in
Belgium, the News Telegraph reported that: The corpses of two women and parts of a third body have
been discovered in a freezer at a Lebanese restaurant in Brussels.
As the body count mounted, the outrage of the Belgian people grew. They demanded to know why this
man, dubbed the 'Belgian Beast,' had been released after having served such an absurdly short sentence.
And to know why, as evidence had continued to mount and girls had continued to disappear, the police
had chosen to do nothing. How many girls, they demanded to know, had been killed as a result of this
inaction?
Adding further fuel to the fire, as a Los Angeles Times report revealed, was that: a highly regarded
childrens activist, Marie-France Botte, claims that the J ustice Ministry is sitting on a politically sensitive
list of customers of pedophile videotapes.
The same report noted that: The affair has become further clouded by the discovery of a motorcycle that
reportedly matches the description of one used in the 1991 assassination of prominent Belgian
businessman and politician Andre Cools. Michel Bourlet, the head prosecutor on the pedophile case,
meanwhile, has publicly declared that the investigation can be thoroughly pursued only without political
interference. Several years ago, Bourlet was removed from the highly charged Cools case, which remains
unsolved.
A report in Time magazine alluded to murky links between the Dutroux operation and organized crime
figures. Much later, Marc Verwilghen - the chief investigating magistrate on the case - would bluntly state:
For me, the Dutroux affair is a question of organised crime. Also mentioned in the Time article was the
use of secret underground tunnels, not unlike those described by children a decade earlier at the
infamous McMartin Preschool.
Outrage continued to grow as more arrests were made and evidence of high-level government and police
complicity continued to emerge. One of Dutroux's accomplices, businessman J ean-Michel Nihoul,
confessed to organizing an orgy at a Belgian chateau that had been attended by government officials, a
former European Commissioner, and a number of law enforcement officers. A Belgian senator would note,
quite accurately, that such parties were part of a system which operates to this day and is used to
blackmail the highly placed people who take part.
In September, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were police officers - were detained and
questioned about their possible complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the case.
As the Los Angeles Times noted in a very brief, two-sentence report, the detainments were the latest
indication that police in the southern city of Charleroi may have helped cover up the alleged crimes of
Marc Dutroux.
The arrests followed raids on the police officers homes and on the headquarters of the Charleroi police
force and were based on information supplied by police inspector Georges Zicot, who had already been
charged as an accomplice. Three magistrates had also reportedly been interrogated by police investigators.
J ust days before the arrests, police had also arrested five suspects in the Cools assassination, including a
former regional government minister named Alain VanderBiest. Strangely enough, the News Telegraph
reported that: Police investigating the Cools murder in 1991 have been given helpful leads by some of
those arrested in the Dutroux case. The Telegraph also noted that Cools had promised shocking
revelations before his death.
On October 14 came the straw that broke the camel's back: J ean-Marc Connerotte, who had been serving
as the investigating judge on the case, was dismissed by the Belgian Supreme Court. Connerotte was
viewed by the people as something of a rarity: a public official/law enforcement officer who actually
appeared to be pursuing a prosecution, rather than a cover-up. The News Telegraph described him as: the
only figure in the judiciary who enjoys the nations confidence.
As the New York Times reported, Connerotte became a national hero in August after saving two children
from a secret dungeon kept by a convicted child rapist and ordering the inquiry that led to the discovery of
the bodies of four girls kidnapped by a child pornography network. He had also, in 1994, arrested three
men as suspects in the Cools assassination just before the case was transferred to the jurisdiction of
another magistrate.
His removal from the Dutroux case fanned the smoldering flames of public outrage; the Times report
noted that: Hundreds of thousands of people had petitioned the high court to retain the judge. Adding yet
more fuel to the fire, prosecutor Michel Bourlet was claiming that evidence suggested that a pedophile ring
composed of the wealthy and powerful had been protected for twenty-five years.
With the families of Dutroux's victims calling for a general strike, men and women all across the country
walked away from their jobs in protest as railway workers and bus drivers shut down public transportation,
bringing some cities to a virtual standstill. The Telegraph reported that: In Liege, firemen turned their
hoses on the citys court building to symbolize the massive clean-up that was in order.
On October 20, 350,000 citizens of the tiny nation took to the streets of Brussels dressed all in white,
demanding the reform of a system so corrupt that it would protect the abusers, rapists, torturers, and killers
of children. The political fallout from the case would ultimately bring about the resignation of Belgium's
State Police Chief, Interior Minister, and J ustice Minister likely sacrificial lambs tossed to the outraged
masses to avoid what could easily have exploded into a full-scale insurrection by the people, particularly
after police incompetence allowed Dutroux to escape and remain at large for a brief time in April of
1998.
There were in fact calls from the people for the entire coalition government to step down. Months later, an
opinion survey by Brussels Le Soir newspaper found that only one-in-five Belgians still had confidence
in the federal government and the nations justice system. As the Los Angeles Times reported in J anuary of
1998, the conviction remains stubbornly widespread that members of the upper crust - government
ministers, the Roman Catholic Church, the court of King Albert II - belonged to child sex rings, or
protected them.
The lingering distrust of the people was not alleviated by the fact that a parliamentary inquiry had, in April
of 1997, identified thirty officials who had, as the Times tactfully put it, failed to uncover Dutrouxs
misdeeds. Nearly a year later, none of them had yet suffered any repercussions. Additionally, at least ten
missing children suspected of having fallen prey to Dutrouxs operation have never been found.
The commissions report was, in many peoples eyes, a shameless cover-up. As the News Telegraph
summarized, the report said competition between rival forces had prevented vital information from being
exchanged and obvious evidence from being followed up rather than acknowledge the obvious, which
was that rampant police corruption and complicity were to blame.
J ust a few months before the commission issued its report, the Telegraph was reporting that: Grim rumors
have been circulating that a second paedophile network at least as appalling may have been operating
in parallel to that said to involve Dutroux. The bodies of seven children were believed to have been
hidden by the ring, which was thought could be linked to Dutroux through Michel Nihoul.
Two months after that, a man named Patrick Derochette and three of his family members were arrested
following the discovery of the body of a nine-year-old girl. Rumors quickly began circulating linking this
crime to Dutroux as well. Like Dutroux, Derochette had previously been convicted on multiple counts of
child rape. He had been committed to a psychiatric institution from which he was released after just six
weeks.
Authorities quickly denied that there was any connection between the two cases. In J anuary of 1998,
however, the Telegraph reported that: new evidence from a lawyer involved in the investigations blows a
hole in previous police claims that there was no link between the cases involving the alleged child
murderers Marc Dutroux and Patrick Derochette. Once again, the connection was said to be through
Nihoul.
In April of 1999, the Guardian reported that: the highly respected chairman of a parliamentary inquiry
into the case claims that his commissions findings were muzzled by political and judicial leaders to
prevent details emerging of complicity in the crimes Mr. Verwilghen claims that senior political and
legal figures refused to cooperate with the inquiry. He says magistrates and police were officially told to
refuse to answer certain questions, in what he describes as a characteristic smothering operation.
As of August of 2001, fully five years after Dutroux was taken into custody, his trial had yet to begin.
Parents of victims continued to shout of a cover-up, and the Telegraph was reporting that: It was recently
learnt that scientific tests on 6,000 hairs found in the [underground dungeon] began only this year. These
tests could, of course, reveal how many victims passed through Dutrouxs chamber of horrors.
If the Marc Dutroux case were some kind of aberration, it would still be a disturbing story for the level of
unspeakable corruption and depravity of the Belgian political and law enforcement establishment of which
it speaks. Far more disturbing is the fact that it doesn't appear to be an isolated case at all.
As 1999 drew to a close, the nation of Latvia was rocked by a child prostitution/child pornography scandal
that reached to the very top of the political power structure. The case first broke in August, when police
uncovered a massive operation involving as many as 2,000 severely abused children. When media reports
began linking top Latvian officials to the case, a special parliamentary commission was formed to
investigate.
In February 2000, the chairman of the commission delivered a report to Parliament linking the country's
Prime Minister, J ustice Minister, director of the State Revenue Service, and a number of army and law
enforcement officers to the case. Efforts were immediately begun to discredit the commission chairman,
including allegations that he is tied to the former KGB a classic case of red-baiting, enabling the
allegations to be dismissed as Communist propaganda.
The BBC reported in J une of 1999 that two unnamed German men had gone on trial, accused of running
a child pornography ring in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The pair, along with at least
eleven identified but unindicted accomplices, made video recordings of the gang sexually abusing
children between the ages of three and 14 since 1993.
A large but unspecified quantity of videos, photography, magazines and CD-ROMs containing child
pornography were confiscated. Also noted was a possible connection to the Dutroux case: There have
been cases of Slovak children being taken to Vienna to make pornographic films. The Belgian paedophile
Marc Dutroux was a regular visitor to one Slovak town.
The BBC also filed a brief report on a 1996 case that went almost completely unreported in the English
language press: Mexican police broke up an international child pornography ring based in the resort of
Acapulco which they said had at least four thousand clients in the United States, (emphasis added). A UN
envoy investigating the case said that the child pornography sometimes involved babies of less than one
month old.
On September 29 of 2000, The Irish Times reported that: Eight people were arrested in Italy and three in
Russia, and police said 1,700 people were being investigated in Italy, as yet another pedophile network
surfaced. The images traded by this ring were divided into several categories The most gruesome,
police said, was coded Necros Pedo, in which children were raped and tortured to death.
And so it is that we first confront that most disturbing of topics snuff films, which we all know dont
really exist. As recently as February of 1999, the New York Post assured readers that: Snuff films are the
stuff of urban legend how did this legend get started? No one knows. The unfortunate truth though is
that they do, as it turns out, actually exist, and they likely have existed for as long as film has existed,
though they weren't always known by that name.
According to the Post: The term snuff was actually coined during the Charles Manson case, when press
reports repeated a rumor that the Manson family had filmed home movies of the brutal slayings. Other
reports hold that the term was coined in 1976 by a writer for the New York Times who was in need of a
phrase to describe reports of murders following sexual activity being captured on film.
Not long after that, as Carl Raschke wrote: The Texas House Select Committee on Child Pornography
disclosed in the late 1970s that investigators probing leads to organized crime in Houston, Dallas, and
other major cities found that slave auctions for sixteen- and seventeen-year-old boys were routinely held
in Mexico. Some of the boys were featured in brutal snuff or slasher movies.
Raschke also quotes from a study by U.S. mental health professionals that claimed that a child from
Mexico can be packaged, delivered, and sold deep within this country in a short time, and that many are
purchased solely for the purpose of killing. In Enslaved, Gordon Thomas reported that: At the start of
the year [1991] Britain's Scotland Yard was continuing to investigate reports that up to twenty children in
London had been murdered last year in [snuff films] and the video tapes sold on the Continent.
An account of the Italian case carried by the Guardian affirmed the existence of snuff films: police have
discovered a massive international paedophile network selling violent child-pornography videos to clients
in Italy, the US and Germany (authorities are) trying to identify 5,000 people who are suspected of
attempting to purchase the videos, some of which appear to contain images of children being tortured and
murdered.
The UKs Independent, in a follow-up published in November of 2000, also confirmed that the seized
materials did in fact include child snuff films: Horrified investigators gathered images of more than 2,000
children who were filmed while being abused, raped, and killed. By that time, close to 1,500 people
had been charged in the case, but not - as the Guardian noted - those in high places who are believed to
form a paedophile lobby.
As in the Belgian and Latvian cases, there were clear indications of high-level complicity and a strong
belief among the Italian people that the facts of the case were being covered up. And as with the other
cases, the magistrate heading up the inquiry provoked a furore by denouncing a paedophile lobby
supported by politicians which he said openly obstructed the investigators and worked to prevent tougher
sanctions for the consumers of child pornography, according to the Independent.
The New York Times reported in March of 1997 that there is growing public indignation in France and
elsewhere about the recurrent reports of kidnapping, rape or incest involving the very young. The same
Times report noted that: police across France have detained more than 250 people and confiscated some
5,000 videocassettes in conjunction with an investigation into a massive child pornography ring. Those
detained by police were described as mainly married professionals. A dozen of them would soon turn up
dead, allegedly suicide victims.
In J une, the News Telegraph spoke of over 800 French homes being raided and 204 suspects being taken
into custody the week before. Among those detained were: More than 30 teachers and a number of
priests, as well as the deputy mayor of the town of Saint Mihiel. By the end of the week, four had
committed suicide, including a school headmaster.
Three years later, the BBC filed a very brief report noting that a verdict was due in the trial of more than
sixty people accused of possessing child pornography. One of the judges hearing the case said examining
the video evidence made him feel physically sick. In a familiar refrain, it was reported that: the French
courts have been accused of attacking the easy targets -- porn consumers -- rather than producers and
distributors. And one childrens rights group has alleged that senior public figures were among those
investigated -- but their cases were dropped before coming to court.
In 1998, another large-scale international ring was discovered operating out of the Netherlands and Berlin,
Germany. The New York Times reported that investigators called the case nauseating, in that images of
abuse of even babies and infants were peddled via the Internet and other media. Police discovered
voluminous records of what appear to be clients and suppliers from countries including Israel, Ukraine,
Britain, Russia and the United States.
The ring was first uncovered when a key member was found dead in Italy. According to The Irish Times,
he was murdered by another member of the ring. His apartment in the Dutch town of Zandvoort was found
to contain thousands of digital images stored on computer disks, as well as hundreds of addresses of
suspected suppliers and clients, according to the New York Times. The images shocked even veteran sex-
crimes investigators, one of whom stated that the seized evidence left [him] speechless It looks like the
perpetrators are not dealing with human beings but with objects.
In September 1998, another ring was raided what the BBC described as a larger and more sinister
paedophile network called Wonderland. The network was so named in honor of Lewis Carrolls revered
children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll was widely known to have a predilection for
underage girls and boys, and is now something of a patron saint of pedophiles around the globe.
A concerted effort has been made over the decades to cover up Carrolls pedophilic tendencies, though the
truth is evident even in the heavily whitewashed profiles of him that can be found in modern
encyclopedias. Microsoft's Encarta notes that: Always a friend of children, particularly little girls, Carroll
wrote thousands of letters to them, and also that he gained an additional measure of fame as an amateur
photographer. Most of his camera portraits were of children in various costumes and poses, including
nude studies.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that Carrolls photographic hobby was abandoned in 1880, while
dismissing suggestions that this sudden decision was reached because of an impurity of motive for his
nude studies. Britannica also notes that Carroll - who was raised in an environment where there were
few friends outside the family, and who was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on the winter
solstice of 1861 (an occult holiday) - generally lost interest in his child friends when they reached the
age of twelve.
Wonderland is also the name of the quarterly publication of the Lewis Carroll Collector's Guild, which
bills itself as a voluntary association of persons who believe nudist materials are a constitutionally
protected expression and whose collective interests include pre-teen nudes. As Gordon Thomas has
noted: In Wonderland the delights of transgenerational sex pepper the pages. Such is the legacy of
the men whose literary works are peddled to our children but here I digress.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that: Police in 22 states and 13 foreign countries conducted
coordinated raids aimed at breaking up an Internet child-pornography ring The ring involves as
many as 200 people around the world, who exchanged over the Internet thousands of sexually explicit
images of children as young as 18 months. The Independent later reported that the ring shared pictures
of children being abused -- in some cases live via web-cam broadcasts over the internet.
The raids included homes in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Portugal and Sweden, according to the New York Times, which added that: Several dozen people were
arrested, but officials said they expected more than 100 to be charged. The Independent later reported that
107 suspects were ultimately arrested. The Mercury News implied that this may be only the tip of the
iceberg: The ring actually extends into 47 countries.
The case was described by a British official as stomach-churning. The Times reported that Wonderland
Club members are believed to have posed their own children for pictures In other cases parents may
have taken money to let their children be used. The Guardian reported that over 1,250 children were
featured in the photos and videos, many of whom suffered appalling injuries and were seen sobbing
uncontrollably as they were being sexually violated. The Independent added that the victimized children
were mostly under [the age of] 10.
A BBC report held that the combined raids resulted in the seizure of more than 750,000 computer images
of children. A Detective Superintendent with the British National Crime Squad called these images
disgusting and the behavior that has been carried out is absolutely appalling. Though ignored by the
American press, Wonderland originated in the United States.
Among the scores of U.S. homes raided, one yielded a database of more than 100,000 sexual photographs
of naked boys and girls. Interestingly enough, the Times also noted that another raid, in Missouri, turned
up a cache of weapons as well as child pornography in a heavily fortified trailer, illustrating once again -
as did the Dutroux case - the close ties between organized pedophilia and other terrorist assaults against
society.
As with the earlier raids in Europe, a rash of suicides soon followed. By October 24, the Mercury News
was reporting that no fewer than four of the thirty-four American suspects had killed themselves. These
included a retired Air Force pilot, a microbiologist at the University of Connecticut, and a computer
consultant in Colorado.
In the UK, the Wonderland raids - dubbed Operation Cathedral - resulted in the indictments of eight
suspects. One of the eight turned up dead four months later another alleged suicide. The other seven
were given ridiculously light sentences in February of 2001 for their complicity in inflicting unfathomable
abuse on countless children. Sentences ranged from 12 to 30 months.
J ust a few weeks before the sentences were handed down, the Guardian was reporting that: Police today
arrested 13 suspected paedophiles in the largest ever UK operation against child pornography. Once again
a massive amount of appalling evidence was seized, with most of the material featuring scenes of
children being raped and sexually abused.
The Independent reported in February of 2001 that: Detectives working on the [Wonderland] case
discovered that many of the paedophiles were also members of other child pornography groups. One of
the groups most closely tied to Wonderland was a ring known as the Orchid Club, which had been
exposed by a 1996 investigation in San J ose, California. That investigation had led to the indictment of
sixteen men on charges of conspiring to produce and exchange child pornography. Members of the club
were identified in at least nine states and three foreign countries.
By the time of the Wonderland raids, the Mercury News was able to report that the purported ringleader of
the Orchid Club and twelve others either have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in connection with
that case. Their crimes included recruiting young relatives and friends of their own children to be
molested and photographed.
The club was also, like Wonderland, involved in real-time exploitation of children on the internet. Club
members were able to send in requests and have them acted-out on live feeds. The club also held a
pedophile summit, at which members traded stories about pre-teen girls they had molested and
photographed in sexually explicit poses. The summit was held, appropriately enough, on April 20 the
birth date of Adolf Hitler and a major satanic holiday.
In late March of 2001, yet another interlinked global network was exposed. The Independent reported that:
US authorities announced the arrest of four American citizens for involvement in an international child-
porn ring called Blue Orchid. The Los Angeles Times added further details the next day, reporting that
the United States and Russia have shut down a Moscow-based international pornography ring that used
the Internet to sell videotapes of children engaged in sexual acts.
These tapes were said to sell for between $200 and $300. An Associated Press release held that: Police
seized some 600 videotapes, 200 digital video disks and many boxes of photographs. Video duplication
equipment and sales and shipping records were also seized, leading to criminal inquiries in 24 nations
Many of the tapes were bought by people in the United States; others went to Germany, Britain, France,
Denmark, China, Kuwait, Mexico and scores of other countries.
The Times reported that nine people had been arrested and fifteen search warrants issued. The AP report
noted that four of those arrested were in Russia, where two suspects had, alas, committed suicide. The
ring was also said by the Times to offer what were cryptically referred to as custom-made videos for the
hefty price of $5,000 each. The contents of these videos were not revealed.
What was revealed though was that the prevalence of child pornography has increased dramatically with
the growth of the Internet. There are approximately 100,000 web sites worldwide associated with child
pornography. This point was reinforced the very next day when the UK press reported police raids on yet
another pedophile ring.
The Guardian reported that: More than 30 people, including a man working for a national youth
organization, were arrested yesterday in dawn raids on the homes of suspected paedophiles. Once again
being sold and traded were images which showed children being abused.
A report on the case in the Independent quoted a law enforcement spokesman as revealing that those
arrested included members of some interesting professions, though demurring from revealing what
those professions might be. The official also said that they had a disturbing scenario of one or two
juveniles who have been caught in this way. One of them appears to be a 13-year-old boy.
The police did acknowledge that the arrested boy was also a potential victim and would be treated in that
light, which seems rather obvious. Nevertheless, a follow-up to the story that the Independent ran in May
reported that the boy had become one of the youngest people to be listed on the sex offenders register.
The very next month, the Guardian carried a report on Eric Franklin Rosser accused child pornographer,
one of the FBI's ten most wanted criminals and a former keyboardist for J ohn Cougar Mellencamps band.
According to the report: Investigators believe Rossers material is among pornography circulated by a
British paedophile ring More than 1,800 members are thought to belong to a club called Teenboys. Its
website features boys aged around 12 Teenboys is considered bigger than the notorious Wonderland
Club.
Meanwhile, a pedophile ring in Australia with high-level government connections was handled in a
slightly different way. As The Irish Times reported on J uly 17, 1998:
Police suspect a series of gruesome gay hate killings in the Sydney region could be the work of a serial
killer whose victims might be linked through a notorious paedophile ring. The latest mutilation murder
was that of Australia's longest serving mayor, Frank Arkell, aged 68, who was bludgeoned to death in his
flat and who had previously faced 29 child sex charges.
In the past few months two other men, one a convicted child sex offender, were attacked in their homes
in similar circumstances and also suffered horrific injuries. Arkell, the former Lord Mayor of Wollongong,
50 miles south of Sydney, was a key witness in a royal commission into police corruption which
uncovered a network of paedophiles.
Those serial killers sure come in handy sometimes.
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The Pedophocracy, Part II: ... to Washington
"Paul and Shirley Eberle wrote The Politics of Child Abuse, a book that accuses mothers,
mental health professionals, and prosecutors of feeding children stories about sexual abuse.
Since the book was published by Lyle Stuart in l986, the Eberles have been cited as experts in
sexual abuse trials What is startling about the Eberles' reputation as ground-breaking
experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged Their
publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S & M, and sexual activities involving
urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a
man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing
entitled Memories of My Boyhood.'"
Ms. Magazine, December 1988
While the size and scope of these operations have grown rapidly in recent years, America
has - as it turns out - always been a nation whose laws were friendly to purveyors of child
pornography. It was just over twenty years ago - in 1978 - that the very first federal statute on
child pornography was passed into law. While forbidding production and sale, the statute
placed no restrictions at all on the possession or trade of such materials.
New laws enacted in 1984 forbid the trade of child pornography regardless of whether any
money changed hands, though possession still remained legal. In fact, as recently as 1990,
private possession of child pornography was legal in 44 of the 50 states, despite the
inescapable fact that all such materials were, by necessity, illegally produced and/or illegally
acquired.
Technology has for some time now played a key role in greatly expanding the availability of
child pornography. The Polaroid camera, for example, eliminated the need for child
pornographers to have access to complicit photo labs. Home video cameras did likewise for
moving images. Personal computers, digital cameras, web cams, scanners, and - especially -
the Internet, have vastly expanded the reach of child pornography networks.
In the age of the Internet, child pornography is a booming business. The Los Angeles Times
noted in December of 1999 that: the number of investigations for Internet-related child
pornography is soaring. The FBI launched 1,125 such inquiries this year, more than twice as
many as last year. In the wake of this rising tide, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
issued a ruling on December 17, 1999 which struck a serious blow to the prosecution of child
pornography cases.
As the Times reported, the decision stipulated that the government cannot prohibit computer-
generated sexual images that only appear to be pictures of children. A later report noted that
appeals court judge Donald Molloy stated that the First Amendment bars the government from
criminalizing the generation of images of fictitious children engaged in imaginary but
explicit sexual conduct.
On J anuary 22, 2001, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the case.
Should the presidential appointers on the high court choose to affirm the decision of the lower
court, prosecution of child pornography cases will become all but impossible in all fifty states.
Until that time, prosecutors are barred from bringing virtual-child pornography cases in
California and the eight other Western states within the jurisdiction of the U.S. 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals.
As critics have noted, graphics technology now available to the general public is so
sophisticated that it is virtually impossible to determine if an image has been digitally altered,
and if therefore any actual children were involved in the generation of the image. J ustice
Department lawyers argued that very point, noting that the government may find it
impossible in many cases to prove that a pornographic image is of a real child.
Any good defense attorney could, in other words, raise reasonable doubt as to the authenticity
of an image. It could in fact be argued that all such computer images only appear to be
pictures of children. Computer images are not in fact photos, but are digital computer files
that display as a facsimile of the original photo. A sound legal argument could be made that
all digitally transferred and displayed child pornography is therefore legal, as it doesn't
represent 'real children.'
That should come as great news to the international child pornography networks, given that
the United States is their number-one market. According to investigative author Gordon
Thomas, the majority of child pornography produced worldwide is targeted at the U.S., where
by the early 1990s it was already a $3 billion a year business, and growing.
Thomas claims that - according to law enforcement figures - over 22 million copies of child
pornography videos were sold or rented in the U.S. in 1991. He also writes that much of that
pornographic material is produced here, where it is part of the largest segment of movie
making in the United States. J an Hollingsworth concurs with that figure, describing child
pornography as: A three-billion-dollar - per year - U.S. industry that grossed twice that
worldwide. It [is] bigger than Disney. Much bigger.
Speaking of Disney, Thomas notes that child porn videos are frequently trafficked
internationally by deceptively packaging them as Disney videos. Strangely enough, the first
man to benefit from the circuit court decision was Patrick J . Naughton. You may remember
him as the executive with the Walt Disney Co. who ran one of the company's kid-friendly
web sites. Naughton was arrested and later tried on child pornography charges.
He was convicted on December 16, just one day before the decision was handed down in the
case before the circuit court. Within hours of the appeals court ruling, Naughton was released
by federal prosecutors on $100,000 bail. Despite the fact that he was, as the Times
acknowledged, convicted of possessing pictures of actual children, the decision was made to
release him until the impact of the court's ruling can be sorted out, illustrating the
significant undermining of existing law that the court ruling portends.
Closely associated with child pornography is, of course, child abuse. It should go without
saying that all kids used in child pornography are abused children, their abuse recorded on
film and tape for the depraved enjoyment of other child abusers. Also closely associated with
child pornography is the always controversial issue of 'missing children.'
There is considerable debate as to whether there is a problem in this country with missing
children. Some claim that 200,000 or more children disappear without a trace every year.
Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction
of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare.
The problem is that nobody really knows for sure, since the FBI - America's compiler of crime
statistics - doesn't bother to keep track. As Ted Gunderson, former FBI station chief for Los
Angeles, has stated: The FBI has an accurate count on the number of automobiles stolen
every year. It knows the number of homicides, rapes and robberies, but the FBI has no idea of
the number of children that disappear every year. They simply do not ask for the statistics.
Many believe that the numbers aren't compiled because the FBI doesn't want to know or
more accurately, the FBI doesn't want the American people to know. What is known though is
that reports of child abuse have skyrocketed. Between 1963 and 1988, reported cases of child
abuse rose from 150,000 to 2,000,000 per year, a 1300% increase in just a quarter-century.
Child abuse may in fact be the most prevalent - and possibly the most significant - crime in
American society, given that it provides the breeding ground for so much of the more visible
crime plaguing Western culture. As Thomas reports: over 90 percent of the teenage prison
population are now victims of child abuse, and that population is growing rapidly.
In the wake of this rising tide, the Los Angeles Times reported in March 2001 that: President
[a clearly inappropriate use of the word] Bush's budget will trim a program aimed at
preventing child abuse and cut some child care spending A child abuse prevention program
will see an 18% cut. That money will apparently be much better spent on handing out tax
breaks for the wealthy and building missile defense shields but here I digress.
Author and e-zine editor Robert Sterling has written of what he refers to as a pattern of
trivialization of child molestation evidence that seems to characterize high-profile media
stories. He points out, for instance, that in the highly publicized Woody Allen and Mia Farrow
child custody case, all the attention was focused on Allens illicit romance with Soon-yi
Previn.
Almost entirely ignored in the media coverage was the fact that Allen was also charged with
molesting his own seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan. While the press dismissed those
allegations as unfounded and unworthy of reporting, Sterling notes that Connecticut state
authorities, based on the testimony of Dylan and others, have stated that they do believe
Woody did molest her, but decided not to prosecute anyway, allegedly to spare the child any
further trauma.
Sterling also takes note of the case of the Menendez brothers, who, after admitting to
murdering their parents, painfully revealed that they were ruthlessly abused and molested by
them over the years. Their claims were never fully investigated and the boys were viciously
demonized for trying to escape the murder charges and accused of making up their abuse,
though there was in fact clear evidence of that abuse, according to a private investigator who
worked on the case.
Also noted is the kid-gloves treatment afforded Michael J ackson when he was charged with
molestation: even though the accusations against him are widely believed to be true, [they]
are merely passed off with a laugh among other smirking monologue jokes on J ay Leno. And
of course, though unmentioned by Sterling, sister LaToya was ridiculed by the media when
she came forward with stories about the sexual abuse suffered by the J ackson kids at the hands
of their father.
Sterling references other cases as well, including the over-hyped au-pair trial in which
evidence of prior abuse of the child by his parents was consistently ignored, and the Susan
Smith case, in which the media refused to consider whether her own severe childhood abuse
could have been a factor in the murder of her children, despite the fact that her father admitted
to the chronic abuse.
Coupled with the fact that the press have consistently downplayed the occurrence of child
molestation is the equally disturbing fact that that very same media have actively promoted the
sexualization of children a trend that has been greatly accelerated in recent years, and which
serves to legitimize pedophilia.
Taking note of the proliferation of young teen - and even pre-teen - sex symbols, Tom J unod
wrote in Esquire that: the entire culture is besotted with the erotic promise of teenage girls
The lure of jailbait now supplies the erotic energy to a popular culture desperate for whats
new, whats young, whats alive.
The J unod article is, by the way, a profile of Greg Dark, one half of the former Dark
Brothers notorious purveyors of dark-themed, occult-tinged porno films. Dark is rather
noteworthy for openly peddling child pornography, in that many of his films featured a very
young Traci Lords, who began working with the Dark Brothers at the age of thirteen.
But Dark has put those days long behind him. He is now working comfortably in the
mainstream. And he is no longer marketing teen sexuality. No, now he is creating music
videos for Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and the pre-pubescent Leslie Carter (sister of
Aaron Carter and Back Street Boy Nick Carter). That is, according to Dark, a completely
different line of work.
Some interesting facts about Dark emerge in the Esquire profile. It is revealed, for instance,
that he was raised by a satanist father. Darks father used to read to Gregory from the works
of Aleister Crowley, the noted satanist, when Gregory was very young. His fathers
collection of black magick books is one of Darks most cherished possessions.
Also revealed is that Dark is a master manipulator, as he candidly admits to his interviewer:
And the thing is, I like manipulating people. Im comfortable manipulating people. Im good
at it. J unod adds that, during Darks porno days, he asked people to do things curious
things and they did them. Such is the nature of the man crafting the images of Americas
teen sex symbols and marketing them to millions of pre-teen fans ... but here again I digress.
Also closely associated with child pornography is the issue of child prostitution, which - make
no mistake about it - is a booming business. A&Es Investigative Reports has noted that law
enforcement figures indicate that there are currently some 600,000 child prostitutes working in
the United States and Canada and that $5 billion a year is generated worldwide by pimp
organizations specializing in the exploitation of children.
A&E also reported that, throughout North America, there is a growing use of children in the
sex trade, and that young boys make up 51% of that trade. The FBI has, of course, turned a
blind eye; for the last quarter-century, federal prosecutions of major pimp operations have
been virtually nonexistent. As Dr. Lois Lee has noted: Its not a high priority with the FBI
to go after kids that are being transported across state lines. Its really a disgrace.
Dr. Lee is the founder of Children of the Night, an organization devoted to helping repair
the shattered lives of child sex trade victims. Her facility, said to be the only one of its kind in
the world, has seen 10,000 kids pass through its doors. Fully ninety percent of them have
suffered a lifetime of abuse first at home, and later on the streets and alleys of Americas
big cities. Most of them suffered their first abuse before the age of three.
Many of these victims are runaways recruited from small towns across the country, then
brought to prime child prostitution markets such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Once there,
they have an average life span of just seven years; many of them never reach adulthood. For
as long as they survive though, they reap enormous financial rewards for their pimps. The
younger the child, the more popular they are with the J ohns, and therefore the more
profitable for their exploiters.
All of this would tend to indicate that America is in something of a state of denial about the
proliferation of child molestation, child prostitution, and child pornography rings, which
constitute a vast underground in this country. But does this pedophilic underground extend
into the halls of power? Is America's political, corporate and military elite hiding a
particularly dirty little secret from the American people? A secret that, if exposed, could
shatter America's cherished political and economic institutions and bring the house of cards
crashing down?
Consider the case of Craig Spence, a behind-the-scenes Republican powerbroker in
Washington. In J une of 1989, the Washington Times published a story that sent shock waves
across Capitol Hill. It seems that Spence had been operating a call-boy ring that supplied
young boys, some of them very young boys, to the Washington elite of both political parties.
It was rumored that a list of influential clients ran to some 200 names, and some of them were
publicly identified. On the list were such names as former CIA director William Casey,
former prosecutor and current cable news talking-head J oseph diGenova, nominally liberal
Congressman Barney Frank, political activist/propagandist Phyllis Schlafly, and former
Attorney General J ohn Mitchell who once co-hosted a party with Spence.
Also connected to the case were prominent figures in the media; on the guest lists for Spence's
parties were names such as Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid who had both been close friends
of Spences for more than two decades. Koppel had first met Spence when he was serving as
the ABC bureau chief in Hong Kong and Spence was purportedly working as a correspondent
in Vietnam.
Spence's mansion was found to be overflowing with surveillance equipment, including hidden
cameras and microphones and an abundance of two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring
was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation, gathering compromising evidence on
Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. In August, following his arrest on weapon and
drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the Times in which he openly claimed to work for
the CIA and with high-ranking members of the Reagan and Bush administrations.
His claims were scoffed at and he was largely portrayed as a self-important blowhard. There
are indications though that Spence was involved in covert operations as far back as Vietnam,
working under journalistic cover. An associate of his from that time told the Washington Post:
Spence pulled disappearing acts in Vietnam -- sometimes for weeks at a time Then hed
turn up, refusing to say where hed been.
In Washington, Spence was known to take his show on the road, giving some of his boys
regular late-night tours of the White House. These tours were reportedly arranged by Donald
Gregg, the national security adviser to then-Vice President George Bush. Though Gregg
adamantly denied the accusation, there were undeniable connections between the two men,
including the fact that Spence had once sponsored a dinner for Gregg.
The story quickly dropped off the media radar screen, and Washington and the press
proceeded to pretend as though it had never been aired at all. According to a Washington
Times reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered-up some 20,000 documents pertaining to
the case were sealed by court order. By the time Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel
room less than five months after the story first broke, he was all but forgotten.
The UKs Independent reported that: Boston police said he was found lying on his bed at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police
refused to comment on the cause of death. The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told
a friend: I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it
wont be.
Elsewhere in the country, a political operative named Larry King - hailed as the fastest rising
black star in the Republican Party - was embroiled in another high-level pedophile ring.
King, whose operation was based in Omaha, Nebraska, had connections to Craig Spence as
well as to Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Oliver North, and various other major players in
Washington.
The story first began to emerge with the collapse of the Franklin Community Credit Union run
by King, one of many such entities that went belly-up in the 1980s savings and loan scandals.
A special senate 'Franklin Committee' was formed to look into allegations of financial
improprieties, but soon found itself instead investigating claims of child prostitution, child
pornography and ritual homicide. Committee members soon found themselves receiving
anonymous threats.
The investigation led to the doorsteps of some of the most powerful men in the state of
Nebraska including newspaper publisher Harold Andersen (a lunch partner of George
Bush), local columnist Peter Citron, a judge, the mayor of Omaha, the city's Games and Parks
Commissioner, a prominent attorney, the former police chief of Omaha, businessman Alan
Baer, and multi-billionaire Warren Buffet (for whose son King sponsored a political fund-
raiser).
Also identified as a perpetrator by some of the victim/witnesses was George Bush himself.
The scandal was completely ignored by the national U.S. media, and appears to have been
covered by the local press for the sole purpose of discrediting the witnesses and denouncing
the investigation as yet another witch hunt.
The case did attract some attention from the European press though. Pronto, the largest
circulation weekly in Spain, reported that the scandal appears to directly implicate politicos
of the state of Nebraska and Washington, D.C. who are very close to the White House and
George Bush. The report also noted that there is reason to believe that the CIA is directly
implicated, and that the FBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any
efforts by others to do so.
A documentary film crew from the UKs Yorkshire Television, working in conjunction with
the Discovery Channel, worked for months investigating the case. The result of their efforts
was a film entitled Conspiracy of Silence which concluded that the child victims/witnesses
were telling the truth. The documentary was scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel on
May 3, 1994.
J ust days before its scheduled airing, the film was pulled without explanation and all copies
were ordered destroyed. At least one production copy of the video survived the purge,
however, and has been known to circulate among those derisively labeled as conspiracy
theorists. For everyone else, the conspiracy of silence continues.
The Omaha operation, described in the film as a large ring of rich and powerful pedophiles,
appears to have been in business for several years with the knowledge of, and for the
perverse pleasure of, a variety of city, state and federal authorities. J erry Lowe, the first
investigator assigned to the case by the Franklin Committee, reported back that: The
allegations regarding the exploitation of children are indeed disturbing. What appears to be
documented cases of child abuse and sexual abuse dating back several years with no
enforcement action being taken by the appropriate agencies is on its face, mind-boggling.
The investigation revealed that many of the child victims had been recruited from one of
Americas most revered charitable organizations Boys Town, to whom King had
maintained close ties since 1979. Senator Loran Schmit has said: Boys Town came up
frequently during the investigation, but we found it difficult to get information about Boys
Town, as did the film crew from Yorkshire Television.
Republican state senator and Franklin Committee member J ohn DeCamp, in his book The
Franklin Cover-Up, presents a compelling body of evidence to document the charges made by
the child victims and various others associated with the operation. Equally disturbing is the
evidence of the massive cover-up that was perpetrated by the FBI, local police, the grand jury
assigned to the case, and of course the ever-compliant media.
The cover-up involved, according to DeCamp, the untimely deaths of at least fifteen key
players in the scandal including Franklin Committee investigator Gary Caradori, whose
private plane was blown out of the sky on J uly 11, 1990 with Caradori and his eight-year-old
son on board. Caradori had been threatened frequently, as had the witnesses from whom he
was gathering information. His vehicle had also been repeatedly tampered with.
His brother claimed that Gary had told him that he had recently come into the possession of a
key piece of evidence - specifically a book of addresses and phone numbers - which if they
knew he had it, theyd kill him. The wreckage of his plane was, as a reporter on the scene
noted, strewn over a to 1 mile stretch. A National Transportation Safety Board
investigator acknowledged that: the fact that the wreckage is scattered over a large area
certainly demonstrates that it did break up in flight.
Family members claimed that there were items missing from the planes wreckage, most
significantly Caradoris briefcase. Within twenty-four hours of the crash, all of his records had
been impounded by the FBI. Nevertheless, the NTSB ruled that the crash had been accidental,
with no evidence of sabotage.
The Franklin Committee - led by Senator Schmit, who suspected sabotage - ordered a private
investigation into the cause of the crash. Strangely enough, the man selected to conduct that
inquiry was William Colby, a fifty year veteran of intelligence operations whose career began
in the OSS during World War II. Colbys hiring was urged by his protg, Senator DeCamp.
In the 1950s, Colby had served as the CIA station chief in Italy during the notorious
Operation Gladio days. In the 1960s, he ran the equally notorious Phoenix assassination,
torture and terror program in Vietnam that claimed from 20,000 to 40,000 lives. The program
was steeped in mind control operations, including the conducting of terminal experiments on
VC prisoners-of-war.
Colby next served as the director of the CIA under President Richard Nixon, before being
replaced in that post by President Gerald Ford with George Bush. Considering his past history,
Colby was certainly an odd choice to lead an inquiry aimed at ascertaining the truth. Colbys
finding, according to the Omaha World Herald, was that: although the crash had some
strange aspects, there was no specific evidence of sabotage.
As appalling as the trail of dead witnesses was the fact that the child victims, rather than the
perpetrators, were thrown in prison. One of them, a young female victim named Alisha Owen,
achieved the rather dubious honor of spending more time in solitary confinement than any
woman in the history of the Nebraska penal system. She was sentenced to 9-25 years in prison
for allegedly committing perjury, ten years longer than the sentence received by King for
looting his financial institution of $40 million.
As DeCamp explained to the Conspiracy of Silence film crew: For some reason, they had
to send a signal to every kid who is a potential witness. Senator Schmit, who told the
filmmakers that his career had been destroyed and that he had faced financial problems,
believed that a clear signal was being sent to Nebraska politicians as well a signal to not
pursue the investigation any further.
A clearly disillusioned Schmit had this to say: I used to be a firm believer that the system
would work and that people who did things wrong would be punished. And we discovered
victims who claimed to have been abused, and who the grand jury acknowledged had been
abused, but they did not try to find out who had abused these individuals. Instead, they
convicted Alisha Owen of perjury indefensible from my point of view.
It would be a full decade before any of the victims received even a semblance of justice, and
that would ultimately come not from a criminal court, but from a civil court. In early 1999, a
judgment was entered against defendant Larry King in favor of plaintiff Paul Bonacci one of
the most seriously abused of the child victims, whose abuse at the hands of King began when
he was just six years old and which included his forced collaboration in the production of
child snuff films. The memorandum of the district court's decision, issued on February 22,
1999, reads as follows:
Between December 1980 and 1988, the complaint alleges, the defendant King continually
subjected the plaintiff to repeated sexual assaults, false imprisonments, infliction of extreme
emotional distress, organized and directed satanic rituals, forced the plaintiff to 'scavenge' for
children to be a part of the defendant King's sexual abuse and pornography ring, forced the
plaintiff to engage in numerous sexual contacts with the defendant King and others and
participate in deviate sexual games and masochistic orgies with other minor children. The
defendant King's default has made those allegations true as to him ...
The now uncontradicted evidence is that the plaintiff has suffered much. He has suffered
burns, broken fingers, beatings of the head and face and other indignities by the wrongful
actions of the defendant King. In addition to the misery of going through the experiences just
related over a period of eight years, the plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the
present time. He is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many as fourteen
distinct personalities aside from his primary personality. He has given up a desired military
career and received threats on his life. He suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams, has
difficulty in holding a job, is fearful that others are following him, fears getting killed, has
depressing flashbacks, and is verbally violent on occasion, all in connection with the multiple
personality disorder and caused by the wrongful activities of the defendant King.
For his years of unspeakable abuse, physical and emotional suffering, and the complete
shattering of his life, Bonacci was awarded one million dollars. While a bittersweet victory at
best, it was considerably more than most other victims of such abuse have gotten. The trial
was significant for another reason as well; it revealed a glimpse of the connections between
the King case and various other multi-victim abuse cases around the country.
REFERENCES:
1. Asseo, Laurie J ustices Will Review Ban on Virtual Kiddie Porn, Associated Press,
J anuary 22, 2001
2. Bowart, Walter Operation Mind Control, Dell Publishing, 1978
3. * DeCamp, J ohn W. The Franklin Cover-Up, AWT, Inc., 1992
4. Hollingsworth, J an Unspeakable Acts, Congdon & Weed, 1986
5. J unod, Tom The Devil in Greg Dark, Esquire, February 2001
6. Laurina, Maria Paul and Shirley Eberle: A Strange Pair of Experts, Ms. Magazine,
December 1988
7. Li, David K. Naughton Free in Time for Christmas, New York Post, December 23,
1999
8. Li, David K. Turn Him Loose! J udge Voids Naughtons Porno Conviction, New
York Post, J anuary 22, 2000
9. Lichfield, J ohn White House Great Gatsby Lands in a New York J ail Cell, The
Independent (UK), August 10, 1989
10. Lichfield, J ohn White House Midnight Rambler Found Dead, The Independent
(UK), November 13, 1989
11. Mintz, J ohn, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh The Shadow World of Craig Spence,
Washington Post, J uly 18, 1989
12. Savage, David J ustices to Tackle Virtual Child Porn, Los Angeles Times,
J anuary 23, 2001
13. Sterling, Robert Daddys Little Princess, The Konformist, www.konformist.com
14. ** Tarpley, Webster G. and Anton Chaitkin George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography, www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
15. Thomas, Gordon Journey Into Madness, Bantam, 1989
16. Thomas, Gordon Enslaved, Pharos Books, 1991
17. Valentine, Douglas The Phoenix Program, William Morrow, 1990
18. Weinstein, Henry and Greg Miller 'Virtual' Child Porn Is Legal, Court Says, Los
Angeles Times, December 18, 1999
19. Obituary of Craig Spence, Daily Telegraph, November 14, 1989
20. Colby Played Role in Probe of Franklin, Omaha World Herald, April 30, 1996
21. Bush Budget Seeks Child Program Cuts, Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2001
22. The Child Sex Trade, A&E Investigative Reports
23. Conspiracy of Silence, Yorkshire Television and the Discovery Channel
24. Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King (4:CV91-3037), United States District Court
for the District of Nebraska, Memorandum of Decision, February 22, 1999
* Some readers have criticized the use of this book as a source due to the affiliations of
the author with various right-wing groups and causes. This is indeed cause for concern.
Also of concern is that DeCamp served in Vietnam under his mentor - future CIA
director William Colby - as DeCamp himself proudly proclaims in his book. What this
means is that he was likely a part of the Phoenix Program. Nevertheless, DeCamp's
book is the only published work to fully explore the so-called Franklin case, and it
presents a considerable amount of factual information not available elsewhere.
** This book is also problematic, due to the authors' decidedly LaRouchian perspective. While
the book is, for the most part, factually accurate, much of the analysis and interpretation of
those facts misses the mark due to the authors' ideological bias. As with the DeCamp book, its
inclusion as a source should not be interpreted to mean that this author endorses other causes,
affiliations, or past actions of these authors.
The Pedophocracy, Part III: Uncle Sam Wants Your Children
August 2001
"It should come as no surprise, then, that long-time CIA and intelligence complex
operatives turn up on the FMSF Advisory Board. Perhaps the most public member has
been Dr. Louis Jolyon Jolly West, a legendary figure in CIA mind control circles
operating out of UCLA. Another is Dr. Martin Orne, an authority on torture who currently
works at the University of Pennsylvanias Experimental Psychiatry Lab Still another
false memory luminary is Margaret Singer, professor emeritus at the University of
California-Berkeley."
Toward Freedom, May 1998
One of the names raised at the Bonacci trial was that of Michael Aquino. Aquino is the
High Priest and chief executive of the Temple of Set, an overtly satanic cult that split off
from the Church of Satan in 1975. Besides tending to those duties, Aquino also has occupied
his time serving as (according to an official biography once circulated by the Temple) a
Lieutenant Colonel, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army.
Aquino was accused in court by the mother of a victim as being a key player in a nationwide
pedophile ring. Paul Bonacci himself has also positively identified Aquino as an associate of
King, known to the children only as 'the Colonel.' King's personal photographer has identified
Aquino as the man to whom he saw King hand over a suitcase full of cash and bonds.
The photographer, Rusty Nelson, also has said that King told him that Aquino was part of the
Contra guns and cocaine trafficking operation run by George Bush and another notorious Lt.
Col., Oliver North. Aquino has also been linked to Offutt Air Force Base, a Strategic Air
Command post near Omaha that was implicated in the investigation by the Franklin
Committee. He was also claimed to have ordered the abduction of a Des Moines, Iowa
paperboy.
This was certainly not the first time that Aquino had been implicated as a key figure in large
scale pedophile/child pornography rings. In J uly of 1988, not long before the King and Spence
cases broke, the San Jose Mercury News ran a lengthy expos on the Presidio Child
Development Center run by the U.S. Army in San Francisco.
Allegations of abuse being perpetrated at the center first emerged in November of 1986.
Alarmed by accusations made by her child, a parent had sought a medical examination which
confirmed that the three-year-old boy had in fact been anally raped. The boy identified his
rapist as 'Mr. Gary,' a teacher at the center named Gary Hambright.
Even with the conclusive medical evidence, it took the Army almost a month to notify the
parents of other children who had been in 'Mr. Gary's' class that the incident had taken place.
Within a year, at least sixty victims had been identified, all between the ages of three and
seven, and further allegations would be made by parents that several more children were
molested even after the investigation had begun.
Amazingly enough, the center remained open for more than a year after the first case of abuse
was reported, though the Mercury News noted that day care centers under state jurisdiction
are routinely closed when an abuse incident is confirmed. And this was considerably more
than a simple abuse incident that was confirmed.
The stories told by the children implicated many other perpetrators besides Hambright. They
also told of being taken away from the center to be abused in private homes; at least three
such houses were positively identified. They also told of being forced to play poopoo
baseball and the googoo game 'games' that involved the children being urinated and
defecated upon, and being forced to ingest urine and feces.
Many of them also spoke of having guns pointed at them and of having been told that they
and/or their parents and siblings would be killed if they told anyone what had been done to
them. Despite the mounting number of victim/witnesses, and the numerous crimes alleged by
these children, it was only Gary Hambright who was arrested - on J anuary 5, 1987 - and he
was charged with abusing just a single child. And even then the charges were dismissed just
three months later, in March of 1987.
There is little doubt that literally dozens of children were in fact severely abused at the center.
There was irrefutable medical evidence to document that fact. Five of the children had
contracted chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease; many others showed clear signs of anal
and genital trauma consistent with violent penetration, which authorities chose to ignore. One
mother complained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the FBI never interviewed her or her
son, even after doctors had confirmed the boys abuse.
There were unmistakable psychological signs as well. As The American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry noted in April of 1992: The severity of the trauma for children at the
Presidio was immediately manifest in clear cut symptoms. Before the abuse was exposed,
parents had already noticed the following changes in their children: vaginal discharge, genital
soreness, rashes, fear of the dark, sleep disturbances, nightmares, sexually provocative
language, and sexually inappropriate behavior. In addition, the children were exhibiting other
radical changes in behavior, including temper outbursts, sudden mood shifts, and poor impulse
control. All these behavioral symptoms are to be expected in preschool children who have
been molested.
The journal article, written by Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., also noted that: The Presidio case has
confronted both the public at large and the mental health community with an extraordinary
and abhorrent situation of grave psychological proportions: the willful molestation of young
boys and girls by representatives of the most patriarchal and supposedly protective arm of the
American government the U.S. Army.
The article further noted the nearly homicidal rage provoked in the fathers of the children
abused in this way, as they saw the investigations of the crimes perpetrated against their
children stonewalled and covered up. One father is quoted as saying: When something about
the Presidio comes on TV, I want to blow someone away. Another father echoed this
sentiment: I was ready to blow the army base away.
One of those who the fathers would have liked to blow away was Michael Aquino, along with
his wife Lilith. One child positively identified the pair, known to the kids as 'Mikey' and
'Shamby,' and was also able to positively identify the Aquino's home and to describe with
uncanny accuracy the distinctively satanic interior of the house. The young witness also
claimed to have been photographed at the Aquinos' home.
On August 14 of 1987, a search warrant was served on the house. Confiscated in the raid were
numerous videotapes, photographs, photo albums, photographic negatives, cassette tapes, and
name and address books. Also observed was what appeared to be a soundproof room. Neither
Aquino nor his wife were charged with any crimes, nor have they been to this day a fact
that Aquino claims proves his innocence.
The next month, a fire - which the Army deemed to be accidental - destroyed the Army
Community Services Building adjacent to the Presidio's day care center. Strangely enough,
the fire occurred on the autumnal equinox, a major event on the satanic calendar, as the
Mercury News noted. The fire also destroyed some of the center's records.
Three weeks later, fire struck again, this time at the day care center itself. A building that
housed four classrooms, including that of Gary Hambright, was completely destroyed.
Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms determined that both fires,
contrary to the Army's finding, had been arson.
In between the first and second fires (with evidence indicating that a third arson attempt had
been made as well), Hambright was again indicted, this time charged with molesting ten
children. In February of 1988, all but one of the charges were dropped. Shortly thereafter, the
remaining count was dropped as well, and Hambright was a free man once again. No further
charges were brought against him.
In J anuary of 1988, Aquino filed suit against the Army to have it cleared from his record that
he had been investigated as a suspected pedophile. According to court records, he also had
the gall to charge Captain Adams-Thompson [the father of a victim] with conduct
unbecoming an officer because the Captain reported the allegations of child abuse to the San
Francisco police.
In denying Aquino's motion, the court concluded that there was probable cause to title
Aquino with offenses of indecent acts with a child, sodomy, conspiracy, kidnapping, and false
swearing, despite the fact that the San Francisco police department (SFPD) closed its
investigation and filed no charges against the plaintiff or anyone else.
Aquino and various of his defenders have consistently claimed that no one was ever
prosecuted in the case due to a lack of evidence proof that the entire affair was no more than
a witch hunt. Of course, the failure to prosecute the federal charges could also be due to the
fact that, at the time, the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco handling the case was J oseph
Russoniello.
Russoniello would later be identified by reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News as
a player in the Contra cocaine smuggling operation led by Lt. Col. Oliver North and company,
just as witnesses would later identify Lt. Col. Michael Aquino as an operative in the very
same sordid affair. It always helps when your legal adversaries are actually on your side.
In May of 1989, Aquino was again questioned in connection with child abuse investigations;
this time at least five children in three cities were making the accusations. The children had
seen Aquino in newspaper and television coverage of the Presidio case and immediately
recognized him as one of their abusers.
Three of the children lived in Ukiah - former home of the Peoples Temple - where Police
Chief Fred Keplinger was overseeing the investigation of the allegations. The Mercury News
quoted the chief as saying that the children are believable. I have no doubt in my mind that
something has occurred. Aquino was also identified by children in Santa Rosa and Fort
Bragg.
In the Fort Bragg case, allegations of ritual abuse erupted ... in 1985 when several children at
the J ubilation Day Care Center said they were sexually abused by a number of people at the
day care center and at several locations away from the center, including at least two
churches. Aquino was identified as having been at one of those churches.
The Mercury News also reported that there was clear evidence of satanic cult activity on the
grounds of the Presidio base, including an abundance of satanic graffiti, a satanic altar, and
numerous artifacts of satanic rituals. A former MP at the base is quoted as saying: We were
sitting there, we've got a cult on the Presidio of San Francisco and nobody cares about it ...
We were told by the provost marshal to just forget about it.
On April 19, 1988 - the eve of Adolf Hitlers birthday, and seven years to the day before the
Oklahoma City Federal Building would explode, allegedly due to an act of domestic
terrorism- an open-house was held on the grounds of the Presidio heralding the opening of
the new day care facility built to replace the fire-damaged Child Development Center.
As a final note on the Presidio case, a report in the Marin Independent Journal revealed that
Aquino owned a building in Marin County - inherited from his mother, Betty Ford-Aquino -
that had been jointly leased to the Marin County Child Abuse Council and Project Care for
Children. The stated purpose of Project Care was, interestingly enough, to assist parents in
locating day care for their children.
As disturbing as the Presidio case was, it was just one of many ritual abuse cases directly tied
to one or more branches of the United States armed forces. As the Mercury News reported:
By November, 1987 the Army had received allegations of child abuse at 15 of its day care
centers and several elementary schools. There were also at least two cases in Air Force day
care centers, and another in a center run by the U.S. Navy.
In addition, a special team of experts was sent to Panama [in J une of 1988] to help determine
if as many as 10 children at a Department of Defense elementary school had been molested
and possibly infected with AIDS. Yet another case emerged in a U.S.-run facility in West
Germany.
These cases erupted at some of the most esteemed military bases in the country, including Fort
Dix, Fort Leavenworth, Fort J ackson, and West Point. Many of those making the accusations
were career military officers who had devoted their lives to unquestioned allegiance to the
U.S. armed forces. Many would resign their posts in outraged protest.
It would be redundant to review all these cases, as most of them followed a remarkably similar
pattern. Given though that West Point is America's premier military academy, and given also
that the case - like many others - was linked by witnesses to the Presidio, a brief review is
warranted here.
As The Times Herald Record reported in J une of 1991: The incidents [at the West Point
Child Development Center] unfolded against a backdrop of satanic acts, animal sacrifices and
cult-like behavior among the abusers, whose activities extended beyond the U.S. Military
Academy borders to Orange County and a military base in San Francisco, parents charged.
The case first broke in J uly of 1984, when a three-year-old girl found herself in the
emergency room of the West Point Hospital with a lacerated vagina. She told the examining
physician that a teacher at the day care center had hurt her. The next month, the parents of
another child leveled accusations of abuse at the center.
As the Mercury News reported: By the end of the year, 50 children had been interviewed by
investigators. Children at West Point told stories that would become horrifyingly familiar.
They said they had been ritually abused. They said they had had excrement smeared on their
bodies and been forced to eat feces and drink urine. They said they were taken away from the
day care center and photographed.
Despite abundant medical and psychological evidence, and literally dozens of child witnesses,
and despite 950 interviews by 60 FBI agents assigned to the investigation, an investigation
led by former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani produced no federal grand jury indictments,
according to the Herald Record.
The Herald also noted that: In 1987, Giuliani said his detailed investigation showed only one
or two children were abused. This was, it should be noted, a bare-faced lie from the fascistic
future-mayor and would-be Senator, as the Herald report divulged: a still-secret,
independent report - produced by one of the nation's top experts on child sexual abuse -
confirms the children's accusations of abuse.
This was not the first time that the prestigious academy had shown an appalling willingness to
overlook extreme levels of abuse directed at children by army personnel. A year before the
abuse case broke, a 22-month-old child was murdered by an Army staff sergeant. The
Mercury News reported that: After a court martial hearing, the sergeant was given an 18
month suspended sentence and dishonorable discharge.
In other words, he served no time and was essentially given a free ride for murdering a child.
With help from Giuliani, the FBI, the U.S. Army, and the grand jury, the abusers of countless
children at the day care center (which was, appropriately enough, building number 666 on the
academy grounds) were likewise given a free ride.
As with the Franklin case, the children and their parents were to find justice only through the
civil courts. The Herald Record reported that: lawyers for both the government and the 11
child plaintiffs agreed that some children were sexually abused at the center two years ago
(again contradicting Giuliani's bogus conclusions). The government, however, claimed that it
could not be held responsible, due to the assault exemption in the Federal Tort Claim Act.
As the New York Times explained: under federal law the government cannot be held liable
for assaults committed by its employees and thus cannot be sued for assault. In other words,
the Army did not dispute the allegations, it just rather cavalierly maintained that it was
exempt from being sued. The court saw otherwise and awarded $2.7 million to nine of the
child victims paltry compensation for their suffering, but a victory of sorts nonetheless.
The Times opined that the settlement amount was large for a child-abuse case in which no
criminal charges were filed. The article claimed that the failure to prosecute the case was due
to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation found insufficient evidence to
prosecute, when in fact the Bureau appears to have deliberately ignored and/or covered-up
that evidence.
And so ended the West Point case, except that - as one mother noted - it was hardly over:
These people stole our children. She's nothing like she used to be. She's a very angry little
girl. She doesn't trust anyone. She's nothing like she was before this happened. It's never going
to be over for them, or for us.
The mother of a Presidio victim had this to say: People keep telling us we've got to let it go -
- just forget about it and go on ... Three weeks ago, our youngest daughter was having
nightmares and our other daughter was closing out the whole world, going to her room and
siting there, with no radio, no TV, no nothing. Tell me it's over.
I cannot accept promotion in a system that at first refused to acknowledge and now refuses
to deal with the victims of extensive child abuse that occurred at the West Point Child
Development Center.
Army Captain Walter R. Grote, refusing a promotion to Major in June 1985. Grote
referred to his protest as a fight for the human rights of all children.
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1. Al-Kurdi, Husayn Messing With Our Minds, Toward Freedom, May 1998
2. Arce, Rose Marie Liability in Point Abuse Case Debated, The Times Herald
Record (Middletown, New York), December 23, 1986
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Abused Children's Fears, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, New York), J une 11,
1991
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The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, April 1992
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News, May 13, 1989
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May 23, 1991
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Child Abuse Cited, Washington Post, J une 25, 1985
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Liberation Radio), May 21, 2001
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No. 90-1547-A), United States District Court, Alexandria Division, J uly 1, 1991
The Pedophocracy, Part IV: McMolestation
August 2001
"Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect
on media coverage of such a controversial matter. The [False Memory Syndrome]
foundation is an aggressive, well-financed PR machine adept at manipulating the press,
harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics,
expert defense witnesses, litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and
devastated parents.
Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1997
If there's anyone who can relate to the sentiments expressed by the Presidio and West Point
parents, it is the mothers and fathers of the children from the McMartin Preschool and there
are literally hundreds of them. The McMartin case was, of course, the largest and most well-
publicized of the multi-victim, multi-perpetrator ritual abuse cases that sprang forth in the
1980s.
It was also a case that was grotesquely misrepresented by the media, both mainstream and
'alternative' perhaps nowhere more so than in the appalling writings of Alexander Cockburn,
the allegedly progressive Warren Committee apologist. Cockburn went so far as to write an
op-ed piece entitled The McMartin Case: Indict the Children, J ail the Parents, which ran in
The Wall Street Journal on February 8, 1990.
Virtually everyone agrees that the children of McMartin were victimized, the only debate
being whether that victimization was by abusive caretakers or by overzealous therapists and
prosecutors. Either way, Cockburns stance on the case was unconscionable, and should have
sent a clear signal to the progressive community that there was considerably more to the
McMartin allegations than met the eye.
The harsh reality is that the McMartin Preschool, in conjunction with at least two other
Manhattan Beach preschools and one babysitting service, was the center of a massive child
prostitution and child pornography ring whose operations were protected and covered up by
any number of local, state and federal officials or so it would appear.
A glimpse of the true nature and scale of the McMartin case is given by an official
correspondence from Sergeant Beth Dickerson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department to Agent Ken Lanning at the FBI Academy Behavioral Sciences Unit in Quantico,
Virginia, dated February 10, 1985, and reproduced in Larry Kahaner's Cults That Kill:
In August 1983, the Manhattan Beach Police Department began an investigation
regarding allegations of sexual abuse occurring at the McMartin Preschool ...
Altogether, approximately 400 children were evaluated by therapists at Children's
Institute International. All interviews were videotaped and 350 children disclosed
sexual behavior ...
In all, the victims named seven teachers (six women and one male) at the
preschool as having molested them. These individuals are currently charged with
209 counts of child molestation. Also named are about 30 other individuals still
uncharged, as well as numerous unidentified 'strangers.'
McMartin victims allege sexual abuse occurred on school grounds as well as at a
local market, churches, a mortuary, various homes, a farm, a doctor's office, other
preschools and other unknown locations ...
Most children state they were photographed in the nude ... They mention
drinking a red or pink liquid that made them sleepy ... Children disclose animal
sacrificing (bunnies, ponies, turtles, etc.) and some of this occurred in churches.
Victims describe sticks put in their vaginas and rectums and also being 'pooped'
and 'peed' on. Children say that the adults sometimes dressed in black robes,
formed a circle around them and chanted.
In May 1984, another preschool investigation began in the same policing
jurisdiction stemming from a McMartin victim who identified the Manhattan
Ranch Preschool as a place where he was taken and molested ... additional
children have begun disclosing sexual abuse (approximately 60) and they have
named six or more additional suspects ... These children talk of strangers coming
to the school and molesting them, being taken off campus and molested, being
photographed nude and some talk of animals being abused. The children talk of
being hit with sticks and of being 'peed' and 'pooped' on ...
[T]he resources of the police department and the District Attorney's office were
not sufficient in order to follow up on the multitude of uncharged suspects in both
preschools ... The Task Force became operational on November 5, 1984. It should
be noted that the Task Force has two other preschools under investigation for
alleged sexual abuse in addition to McMartin and Manhattan Ranch. One, the
Learning Game Preschool, is clearly linked to McMartin.
An astounding total of 460 children reported being sexually abused at the three closely-linked
Manhattan Beach schools. Even more astounding, investigative author Michael Newton
(among others) has noted that Childrens Institute International determined that: a full eighty
percent displayed physical symptoms, including vaginal or rectal scarring, anal bleeding,
painful bowel movements, and the 'anal wick reflex' associated with violent penetration.
The stories told by the victim/witnesses were remarkably similar as to the nature of the abuse,
the locations where the abuse took place, and the perpetrators of the abuse. And these were
not, as is commonly believed, all preschool children telling these stories; some of the
witnesses were former students in their teens and twenties, and their stories corroborated those
of the children.
The older witnesses were not allowed to testify at the McMartin trials, however, as the statute
of limitations for the crimes committed against them had expired. Many of the younger
witnesses were unable to offer testimony as well, for various reasons most notably because
they were too severely traumatized. Even so, as author J an Hollingsworth has pointed out,
prosecutors had at their disposal more than a hundred child witnesses as old as eleven and a
truckload of medical reports bearing documentation of scarred genitals and anuses.
The stories told by these children, it should be noted, were not fed to them by some diabolical
team of therapists and headline-seeking journalists. Many of them were offered spontaneously
to hundreds of parents and scores of childcare specialists. And the victims of the McMartin
Preschool, all adults now, still tell the same stories today.
While anyone suggesting that the allegations in the McMartin case were true - and that a
massive cover-up concealed the true nature and scope of the case - is likely to be labeled a
'conspiracy theorist,' the most preposterous conspiracy theory surrounding McMartin has
always been the notion that some cabal of overzealous therapists was able to implant 'false
memories' of heinous abuse in the minds of nearly 500 individuals, and have them persist to
this day.
Despite the vast number of eyewitnesses - most of them bearing physical evidence of abuse -
and despite the fact that the judge who presided over more than a year of pre-trial testimony
ruled that the state had more than enough evidence to proceed to trial, District Attorney Ira
Reiner inexplicably dropped all charges against five of the seven defendants in the case on
J anuary 17 of 1986. Six days before that, he had summarily dismissed two prosecutors on the
case.
At least three dozen other suspects who had been independently identified by numerous
witnesses were never indicted at all. One of these was a man named Robert Winkler, arrested
in neighboring Torrance, California for running a baby-sitting service out of the Coco Palms
Motel that authorities described as a front for a sexual abuse ring. Children in the McMartin
case recognized Winkler in news footage as the man they had known as the 'Wolfman.'
The kids described Winkler as being a frequent visitor to the school, delivering drugs for use
in abusive rituals, which were sometimes conducted in churches, a cemetery, or a
crematorium. The Wolfman, conveniently enough, turned up dead on the eve of his trial,
allegedly of a drug overdose.
Winkler wasn't the only one to miss his day in court in conjunction with the McMartin case.
J udy J ohnson, the first McMartin parent to lodge a complaint, turned up dead before her
scheduled testimony as well. When her body was found sprawled naked on the floor of her
home, her death was said to be due to complications from her chronic alcoholism. She was
also derided by defense attorneys and their media allies as a mentally unfit crank.
In truth, J ohnson was not known to have any mental problems - or a drinking problem - prior
to learning of the unthinkable abuse her child had suffered. Considered a key prosecution
witness, J ohnson received frequent threats prior to her death and was followed when she
ventured out in public. Many of the other McMartin parents were openly skeptical of
J ohnsons stated cause of death.
A former Hermosa Beach police officer named Paul Bynum, who had been hired by the
parents of victims as a private investigator, turned up dead on the eve of his scheduled
testimony as well. His death by gunshot was ruled a suicide, though those close to Bynum
dispute that finding to this day.
Among other things, Bynum may have testified about his examination of the tunnel
excavation project conducted at the school site. This was, of course, the object of much
derision by the media. The fact that the children repeatedly told stories of tunnels under the
property by which they could be secretly transported to and from the school, and in which
they were subjected to unspeakable abuse in a secret room, was frequently cited as proof
that the children's stories were fabrications.
It was universally accepted that the tunnels did not actually exist, that being the consensus
view of the media and law enforcement authorities. But while it is true that the investigation
commissioned by the District Attorney's office found no evidence of tunnels, one of the dirty
little secrets of the McMartin case is that the tunnels did, in fact, exist.
Many of the parents were not satisfied with the ridiculously superficial examination by the
DAs office, and commissioned another investigation of the site when the property was sold in
April of 1990. To lead the project, they hired E. Gary Stickel, Ph.D., a highly regarded
archeologist recommended to them by the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program of the
Archeology Department at UCLA. Stickel had served as a consultant to Lucasfilms on the
Indiana J ones movies.
Also brought on board were several other technical specialists. As Stickel wrote in his report
on the excavation: By engaging a highly recommended professional archeological team, [the
parents] hoped to bring scientific authority to whatever might be found or a definitive
resolution for whatever was not to be found. And what the team found was precisely what
the children had been telling them they would find for the previous seven years:
The project unearthed not one but two tunnel complexes as well as previously
unrecognized structural features which defied logical explanation. Both tunnel
complexes conformed to locations and functional descriptions established by
children's reports. One had been described as providing undetected access to an
adjacent building on the east. The other provided outside access under the west
wall of the building and contained within it an enlarged, cavernous artifact
corresponding to children's descriptions of a secret room.
Both the contour signature of the walls and the nature of recovered artifacts
indicated that the tunnels had been dug by hand under the concrete slab floor after
the construction of the building ... Not only did the discovered features fulfill the
research prequalifications as tunnels designed for human traffic, there was also no
alternative or natural explanation for the presence of such features ...
If the stories of the children were bogus fantasies, there is no excuse for the
tunnels discovered under the school. If there really were tunnels, there is no
excuse for the glib dismissal of any and all of the complaints of the children and
their parents.
This investigation was completed before the McMartin trials had concluded, yet this
devastating evidence was never presented in court by the prosecution. The existence of this
report, complete with photos and maps of the tunnel complexes, was known to the local and
national press, but it was never reported. To this day, it is denied that any tunnels ever existed
under the McMartin Preschool.
The denial of the tunnels is necessary to maintain the illusion that the children were not
credible witnesses, that illusion being essential to the cover-up. For if the children were
credible, the implications run far deeper than the tunnels under the school. There is, for
example, the stories told by the children of being pimped out as child prostitutes in private
homes and businesses all over the community.
They also spoke frequently of being photographed and videotaped while being abused. District
Attorney Robert Philibosian publicly declared the McMartin Preschool to be an elaborate
front for a massive child pornography operation. Twenty-three parents filed a civil lawsuit
making the very same claim, one that appears to be strongly supported by the facts of the
case.
Other stories told repeatedly by the children are even more disturbing. They told of being
forced to witness and participate in the ritual torture, killing and mutilation of animals and, on
occasion, of human babies and children as well. They spoke of being forced to drink the blood
and eat the flesh of the slaughtered corpses, of witnessing the beheading of infants, and of
being forced to stab infants themselves.
They told as well of being sealed in coffins with the mutilated corpses. And they spoke of
being subjected to every sort of depraved sexual activity imaginable, including necrophilia,
copraphilia and bestiality. The abuse was of such stunning brutality that it is almost beyond
human comprehension that anyone could inflict such physical and psychological torture on
children.
And yet these stories were soon being told by thousands of other kids across the country as
preschool abuse cases spread like wildfire. Young children from all walks of life, and from all
parts of the country, all telling remarkably similar stories of horrific ritual abuse how was
this possible? If they were all victims of 'false memories,' how vast a conspiracy would be
required for therapists all across the country to implant the very same memories in all of these
children?
Experts have noted that the victimized children show a level of knowledge that defies rational
explanation if the kids have not experienced what they claim to have experienced. For
instance, these child victims can accurately describe the look, smell, texture and colors of
human viscera. This is an ability, it has been argued, that very few adults possess, other than
those who have been trained as surgeons or coroners.
These children also display a remarkable level of knowledge of a wide variety of human
sexual practices, including many bizarre acts that, again, most adults do not have knowledge
or awareness of. If these children did not experience these things firsthand, then how did they
gain such knowledge?
In February of 1985, Officer Sandi Gallant of the San Francisco Police Department submitted
a report to her superiors noting the similarities in numerous ritual abuse cases. She had
gathered evidence from fellow officers and police departments across the country and
summarized the evidence referenced in the police reports submitted to her. An excerpt from
her report reads as follows:
The information contained herein is distasteful and bizarre, to such a degree that
one would choose to discredit it. However, research that I have done in this area
has revealed that numerous cases of this type are surfacing around the country
and in Canada. The similarities in the stories of each child victim used in these
crimes tend to give credibility to the information revealed by others. Additionally,
the psychiatrists and therapists who have been treating the victims state that the
consistency of the stories and the explicit details revealed cause them to believe
that these children are telling the truth. It is also the belief of each law
enforcement officer who submitted information for this report that the victims are
being truthful and that, in fact, children would be unable to make such stories up.
During my research, similarities began surfacing which indicate the strong
probability that there exists a network of people in this country involved in the
sexual abuse and possible homicides of young children. These cases appear to
differ from isolated cases of abuse towards children in that the crimes mentioned
here have been committed with one common goal in mind that of mutilating
and murdering children for ritualistic or sacrificial purposes. Many of the cases
reported also reveal the possibility of child pornography beyond the normal type
of kiddie porn in that these children are photographed during rituals with some
members in robes or other garb and candles, snakes, swords, altars and other
types of ritualistic material being used.
Gallant had requested that the report be sent on to the chief of police for him to review and
forward to the FBI. Following his review, however, the chief declined to submit the report.
Gallant also tried to get the U.S. Department of J ustice to review the paperwork, but she was -
not surprisingly - rebuffed there as well.
As for the McMartin case, there has never been any question that the children there were
horrifically abused. Though rarely noted in press reports, the jurors were clearly of the opinion
that that was, in fact, the case. The hung juries and acquittals were the result of the jury
members inability to identify the perpetrators of that abuse, which they attributed to the inept
presentation of the prosecutions case.
Another notable fact about the McMartin trials is that the defense was allowed to subject the
child witnesses to the longest pretrial hearing in the nations history. Facing a battery of as
many as seven rabid defense attorneys, the already severely traumatized children were
verbally assaulted for weeks on end in a deliberate attempt to break them. The state made little
effort to protect these young victims.
Also rarely noted in the reporting on the trials is that the matriarch of the family - Virginia
McMartin - admitted on the stand that one of her own granddaughters believed that her
children had been molested at the school. McMartin, by the way, had achieved semi-celebrity
status in the childcare field. In the mid-1960s, she had traveled to New Zealand, Australia,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway and England to visit preschools as a consultant.
In the final analysis, the logical conclusion to be drawn from the McMartin case is that 460
kids did not conspire to all lie about the abuse they suffered. They also did not likely lie about
their involvement in child prostitution and child pornography. They certainly did not lie about
the tunnels under the school.
They also did not lie about their forced involvement in satanic rituals, in which adults
sheathed in black ceremonial robes uttered chants. In fact, at least one such robe was seized
from the home of a defendant. And, perhaps most tragically, there is good reason to believe
that they did not lie about the blood sacrifices either.

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1. Constantine, Alex Virtual Government, Feral House, 1997
3. Kahaner, Larry Cults That Kill, Warner Books, 1989
4. Newton, Michael Raising Hell, Avon Books, 1993
5. Raschke, Carl Painted Black, Harper and Row, 1990
6. Ryder, Daniel Cover-Up of the Century, Ryder Publishing, 1996
7. Stanton, Mike U-Turn on Memory Lane, Columbia Journalism Review,
J uly/August 1997
8. Stickel, E. Gary, Ph.D. Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool
Site, Manhattan Beach, California (unpublished report of investigation)
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Spring 1994
The Pedophocracy, Part V: It Couldn't Happen Here
Prosecutor Dan Casey: Did you exercise any kind of mind control over your wife in order
to get her to have sexual contact?
Frank Fuster: If I had that power, you think I would use it against ? You know ... I
dont ... I have never. Im a normal human being.
On August 8, 1984, Bobby Dean stood on the front lawn of the Fuster home in the Country
Walk housing development - a picture-perfect, planned community of relatively upscale
suburban homes in Dade County, Florida. By all appearances, this was a small slice of
paradise an oasis untouched by the grim realities of American society.
On this day though, Dean had a loaded gun in his waistband and he fully intended to use it.
He was there to finish the job that someone else had failed to complete on December 18 of
1980. On that day, an unidentified assailant had confronted Francisco Fuster Escalona (aka
Frank Fuster) at his place of business and shot him once in the side of the head.
Fuster survived the attack, which he explained to the police as a botched robbery, though the
officers thought it looked more like an attempted execution. Dean didnt get the chance to
make another attempt; police were on the scene in short order to arrest him.
Fuster himself surrendered to police two days later in response to the issuance of an arrest
warrant. He had been under investigation following accusations by neighborhood parents that
he and his wife, Iliana, had been brutally abusing their children while in the trusted care of the
Fusters babysitting service run out of their Country Walk home.
Fuster had, shall we say, rather questionable qualifications to run a day care center. On
J anuary 16, 1969, Fuster pumped two shots into the heart of a fellow motorist in New York
City, killing him instantly. An off-duty police officer was, curiously enough, an eyewitness to
the summary execution.
Even more curiously, Fuster chambered another round and pointed his gun directly at the
armed officer and yet wasn't shot. He was arrested though, and tried and convicted before
the year was out. On Halloween day (needless to say, yet another occult holiday), he was
sentenced to a ten year prison term. He was back on the streets in less than four, after which
he received psychiatric care.
In November of 1982, he was convicted again this time of a lewd assault on a nine-year-old
girl. Despite being his second felony conviction, Fuster was sentenced to just two years
probation. It was while on probation for the child molestation conviction that Fuster and his
underage wife started up the babysitting service.
His probation officer apparently had no problem with this business venture, although it
brought Fuster into unsupervised contact with at least fifty kids. At least thirty of them were
horrifically abused. Fusters probation officer also had no problem with the fact that Frank had
self-terminated his court-ordered psychiatric treatment in August of 1983.
No one really seems to have been too concerned about Fusters babysitting service, which - in
addition to being run by a convicted child molester - was operating without proper licensing
and in violation of local zoning laws. Commercial enterprises were expressly forbidden in the
residential community.
Nevertheless, the service operated with the full knowledge of the entity managing the
complex. In fact, Fusters service used the name Country Walk Babysitting Service, implying
that his was an officially sanctioned service provided for the community.
The management company, Arvida, denied there were ever any official links to the Fuster
operation after Frank's past and present activities were revealed. This, of course, was to be
expected. Given that Arvida was a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, it wouldn't really
do to be perceived as having connections to a child molestation operation.
The fact remains though that the company took no actions against Fuster for the illegal
expropriation of the Country Walk name or for violating zoning regulations. Dade County
also took a hands-off approach to the Fuster business enterprise. Despite the fact that Frank
lacked other required licenses, the convicted murderer was issued an occupational license to
run the babysitting service.
Detective Donna Meznarich was the first police investigator sent to look into the allegations
being made by the Country Walk parents. She was openly skeptical of the charges before she
even knew what they actually were. The parents felt that she came calling with an
unmistakable attitude of disbelief.
Nevertheless, enough evidence quickly emerged to issue an arrest warrant for Frank Fuster for
probation violations. Considerably more evidence could have been gathered had police
conducted a timely search of the Fuster home. Facing imminent arrest, Fuster was observed by
his Country Walk neighbors hastily packing boxes into a white van.
Fearing the loss of valuable physical evidence, parents contacted the police who failed to
respond. The detective that disregarded the parents concerns that day was Donna Meznarich.
She also executed the search warrant the next day, on a home largely - though not entirely -
cleansed of incriminating evidence.
With Fuster safely in custody, the stories told by the child victims grew increasingly
disturbing. They told of being forced to play pee-pee and ca-ca games. A photo would be
produced at trial showing Fusters young son J aime - one of the most severely abused of the
victims - sitting in a bathroom smeared thickly with excrement.
The children also told of being forced to drink magic punch, later revealed by Fusters wife
to be a mixture of Gatorade, urine, and various drugs. It would be revealed at trial that a close
friend of the Fuster family owned a pharmacy, providing a reliable source for drugs. This
friend was particularly close to Fusters mother and uncle.
The children also told of having their lives threatened repeatedly, and of having their parents
lives threatened as well. They had been compelled to play a game, they said, called who's
gonna lose their head? This game frequently ended with the ritual decapitation of an animal,
typically a bird.
Finally, perhaps inevitably, the children claimed that they were frequently photographed and
videotaped while being sexually abused and during occult rituals. Fuster claimed to have
never owned any video equipment, and none was found in the belated search of the Fuster
home. J aime Fuster though recalled seeing video equipment - as well as guns - being packed
into the boxes being loaded into the van just before Fusters arrest.
Some investigators have speculated that Fuster was in the business of producing custom,
made-to-order child pornography videos. He certainly lived quite well for a self-employed
mini-blind installer. He had no problem coming up with the down payment for his Country
Walk home, and had no fewer than six bank accounts. He was in the habit of making lump
sum deposits of as much as $20,000.
Fuster apparently liked to screen home videos for the kids as well, one of which was said to
be a snuff film that the children described as depicting two men butchering a woman in a
bathtub and then eating her. Some of the kids also, strangely enough, spoke of being
hypnotized by Iliana Fuster, who they said wore a hypnotizer on a chain around her neck.
The trial of Frank Fuster had notable parallels to the McMartin prosecutions, though it
differed in significant ways as well. The Country Walk parents who actively and vocally
worked to see Fuster brought to justice were subjected to death threats by phone, obscene
messages in the mail, and dead chickens left on their doorsteps similar to the harassment
suffered by their counterparts in Manhattan Beach.
Also like McMartin, the primary defense strategy was to bring in a hired-gun expert of
questionable qualifications to attempt to discredit the childrens testimony. The children had
been brainwashed by the overzealous therapists, it was claimed, as these villainous therapists
were crucified as being the true guilty parties in what was clearly a witch hunt.
The man originally scheduled to play this starring role for the defense was Ralph Underwager,
at the time a prominent mouthpiece for a group calling itself VOCAL - Victims of Child
Abuse Laws. As the name implies, this group was largely composed of indicted and/or
convicted pedophiles. Underwager had been present at the birth of the organization.
The defense suffered a bit of a setback though when Underwagers credentials as an expert
in the field of child development were revealed as being nonexistent at a pretrial deposition.
He was quietly dropped by the defense and replaced with Lee Stewart Coleman, who also had
close ties to VOCAL. Coleman had played a key role in the unsuccessful prosecution of the
defendants in one of the McMartin-linked preschools.
Coleman did not succeed in his mission in the Country Walk case, however. Fuster was found
guilty on all fourteen counts. One reason for this is that the children were protected from the
abusive pretrial treatment afforded the McMartin kids. Additionally, the police and
prosecutors - with some notable exceptions - seem to have actually made an effort to win the
case.
Why was this prosecution not subverted as so many others were? That is difficult to say,
though the answer may lie in the make-up of the parents seeking justice for their children;
among them were a police sergeant, a police lieutenant, two former state prosecutors, a
former chief assistant state attorney, and a gun-toting vigilante named Bobby Dean.
In the end, Frank Fuster - the man who appeared at his pretrial hearing in what was described
as a catatonic trance - was sentenced to be imprisoned until the year 2150. Not even the
Santeria priest who attended the trial with Fusters mother and uncle had the power to save
him. And Arvida - which is to say, the Walt Disney Co. - paid $6 million to seven of his
victims.
Even so, justice was not necessarily served. According to the victims, at least two other adults
were involved in the abuse. The state knew the identity of at least one of them, but he was
never charged with any crimes. Had he been, theres no telling where the investigation might
have led; his wife had once run a babysitting service.
With the heightened awareness of child abuse engendered by the high-profile Fuster case, a
number of other cases emerged in the Miami area. In one, police inadvertently stumbled upon
a collection of hundreds of photos of a convicted child pornographer engaged in sexual acts
with young boys, and promptly arrested the man.
Two days after his release on bond, he was found in a Miami hotel room with a bullet hole in
his head. His death was, naturally, ruled a suicide. This timely suicide preempted an
investigation that could have, it seems reasonable to conclude, led to the elementary school
that was directly across from his home/studio.
Another case that broke in the wake of Country Walk was that of Harold Grant Snowden,
whose wife also had run a babysitting service. Dozens of kids had passed through her care
over the course of a decade. It took two trials, but Snowden was ultimately convicted. In 1983,
he had been named the South Miami Police Departments "Officer of the Year." Stepping up
to handle the appeal of his conviction was F. Lee Bailey, who in the late 1960s had
represented a U.S. Air Force Captain in South Carolina accused of child molestation involving
multiple victims.
REFERENCES:
The Pedophocracy, Part VI: Finders Keepers
"Little girls have to learn that their fathers are off limits when it comes to gratification of
sexual feelings
Dr. Richard Gardner, another vocal member of the False Memory Syndrome
Foundation, explaining how children are to blame for their molestation (in The Toronto
Star, February 4, 1996)
J ust a few years later, yet another case broke in the state of Florida. On February 7 of 1987,
not long before the Franklin and the Spence cases broke, the Washington Post ran an
interesting story that did not at the time seem to have any particular national significance. The
article concerned a case of possible kidnapping and child abuse, and read in part as follows:
Authorities investigating the alleged abuse of six children found with two men in
a Tallahassee, Fla., park discovered material yesterday in the Washington area
that they say points to a 1960's style commune called the Finders, described in a
court document as a 'cult' that allegedly conducted 'brainwashing' and used
children 'in rituals.'
D.C. police, who searched a Northeast Washington warehouse linked to the
group removed large plastic bags filled with color slides, photographs and
photographic contact sheets. Some photos visible through a bag carried from the
warehouse at 1307 Fourth St. NE were wallet-sized pictures of children, similar
to school photos, and some were of naked children.
D.C. police sources said some of the items seized yesterday showed pictures of
children engaged in what appeared to be 'cult rituals.' Officials of the U.S.
Customs Service, called in to aid in the investigation, said that the material seized
yesterday includes photos showing children involved in bloodletting ceremonies
of animals and one photograph of a child in chains.
Customs officials said they were looking into whether a child pornography
operation was being conducted ... Their links to the D.C. area have led authorities
into a far-reaching investigation that includes the Finders - a group of about 40
people that court documents allege is led by a man named Marion Pettie - and
their various homes, including the duplex apartment building in Glover Park, the
Northeast Washington warehouse and a 90 acre farm in rural Madison County,
Va. ...
The children, identified in a court document only by the first names of
Honeybee, J ohn, Franklin, Bee Bee, Max and Mary, were described as 'dirty,
unkempt, hungry, disturbed and agitated.' They had been living in the rear of the
van for some time, the document said. Yesterday, police spokesman Hunt said
one of the children, a 6 yr. old girl, 'showed signs of sexual abuse' ...
Five of the children were uncommunicative, according to police, and none
seemed to recognize objects such as typewriters and staplers. However, the oldest
was able to give investigators some information. She said that the two men 'were
their teachers,' according to Hunt ...
Before their arrests in the park, [the two adult caretakers] had told police that
they were teachers from Washington 'transporting these children to Mexico and a
school for brilliant children,' according to Hunt. When police asked the men
where the children's mothers were they said they were being weaned from their
mothers.
This was just one of many such stories that emerged across the country in the late 1980s, a
phenomenon that would quickly be denounced as a witch hunt and as a satanic panic. It
would be nearly seven years before the press would revisit this particular manifestation of
what would come to be regarded as a modern-day case of mass hysteria.
It was the U.S. News and World Report that would ultimately provide the follow-up to the
Finders story, but this was certainly not in the interest of shining any light on the earlier
allegations. Most likely, the strange saga of the Finders would have disappeared forever if not
for the rumors surrounding the case that just wouldn't seem to go away.
These rumors were addressed in the U.S. News report as follows: One of the unresolved
questions involves allegations that the Finders are somehow linked to the Central Intelligence
Agency. Customs Service documents reveal that in 1987, when Customs agents sought to
examine the evidence gathered by Washington, D.C. police, they were told that the Finders
investigation 'had become an internal matter.'
The police report on the case had been classified secret. Even now, Tallahassee police
complain about the handling of the Finders investigation by D.C. police. 'They dropped this
case,' one Tallahassee investigator says, 'like a hot rock.' D.C. police will not comment on the
matter. As for the CIA, ranking officials describe allegations about links between the
intelligence agency and the Finders as 'hogwash,' perhaps the result of a simple mix up with
D.C. police. The only connection, according to the CIA: A firm that provided computer
training to CIA officers also employed several members of the Finders.
It should probably be noted here that the firm that supplied the training didn't just employ
several members of the Finders but appears to have in fact been a wholly owned subsidiary of
the Finders organization. It should also be noted that the CIA does not, as a general rule-of-
thumb, assign the training of its officers to outside contractors. If a 'private' firm is utilized in
such a capacity, it is in all such cases a front group of the CIA itself.
In the last paragraph of the U.S. News report, yet more intriguing connections to Langley are
revealed. Speaking of group leader Marion Pettie, it is noted that the CIA's interest in the
Finders may stem from the fact that his late wife once worked for the agency and that his son
worked for a CIA proprietary firm, Air America. Aside from acknowledging these by then
widely known (in Washington, at least) CIA connections, the U.S. News reporters did their
very best to bury this story once and for all, denigrating the sordid allegations leveled against
the group seven years earlier. The article reads as follows:
The case is almost seven years old now, but matters surrounding a mysterious
group known as the Finders keep growing curiouser and curiouser.
In early February 1987, an anonymous tipster in Tallahassee, Fla, made a phone
call to police. Two 'well dressed men' seemed to be 'supervising' six disheveled
and hungry children in a local park, the caller said. The cops went after the case
like bloodhounds, at least at first. The two men were identified as members of the
Finders. They were charged with child abuse in Florida. In Washington, D.C.
police and U.S. Customs Service agents raided a duplex apartment building and a
warehouse connected to the group.
Among the evidence seized detailed instructions on obtaining children for
unknown purposes and several photographs of nude children.
According to a Customs Service memorandum obtained by U.S. News, one
photo appeared 'to accent the child's genitals.' The more the police learned about
the Finders, the more bizarre they seemed: There were suggestions of child abuse,
Satanism, dealing in pornography and ritualistic animal slaughter.
None of the allegations was ever proved, however. The child abuse charges
against the two men in Tallahassee were dropped; all six of the children were
eventually returned to their mothers, though in the case of two, conditions were
attached by a court. In Washington, D.C. police began backing away from the
Finders investigation. The group's practices, the police said, were eccentric - not
illegal.
The article closed by noting that some of the rumors can last an awfully long time. Indeed
they can, though the rumors would have to circulate outside of the media, which has never
again mentioned the case. This does not mean though that there is no additional information
available on the subject. As the U.S. News noted in their report, there is a certain Customs
Service memorandum that was written at the time of the original investigation.
As this document was in the hands of the News reporters at the time the story was written, as
is readily acknowledged, it should logically follow that any pertinent information contained
therein would have been faithfully reported. And as we know, the News concluded that none
of the allegations was ever proved.
Still, it might be interesting to review the document to see what kind of "eccentric - not
illegal" practices it was that the group was involved in. The memo is actually a series of
memos written by Special Agent Ramon J . Martinez, United States Customs Service. In
Martinez's own words, this is what he observed during his participation in the investigation:
On Thursday, February 5, 1987, this office was contacted via telephone by
Sergeant J oAnn VanMeter of the Tallahassee Police Department, J uvenile
Division. Sgt. VanMeter requested assistance in identifying two adult males and
six minor children ages 7 years to 2 years.
The adult males were tentatively identified by TPD as Michael Houlihan and
Douglas Ammerman, both of Washington, D.C. who were arrested the previous
day on charges of child abuse.
The police had received an anonymous telephone call relative two well-dressed
white men wearing suits and ties in Myers Park, (Tallahassee), apparently
watching six dirty and unkempt children in the playground area. Houlihan and
Ammerman were near a 1980 Blue Dodge van bearing Virginia license number
XHW-557, the inside of which was later described as foul-smelling, filled with
maps, books, letters, with a mattress situated to the rear of the van which
appeared as if it were used as a bed, and the overall appearance of the van gave
the impression that all eight persons were living in it.
The children were covered with insect bites, were very dirty, most of the
children were not wearing underwear and all of the children had not been bathed
in many days.
The men were arrested and charged with multiple counts of child abuse and
lodged in the Leon County J ail. Once in custody the men were somewhat evasive
in their answers to the police regarding the children and stated only that they both
were the children's teachers and that all were enroute to Mexico to establish a
school for brilliant children ...
U.S. Customs was contacted because the police officers involved suspected the
adults of being involved in child pornography and knew the Customs Service to
have a network of child pornography investigators, and of the existence of the
Child Pornography and Protection Unit. SS/A Krietlow stated the two adults were
well dressed white males. They had custody of six white children (boys and girls),
ages three to six years. The children were observed to be poorly dressed, bruised,
dirty, and behaving like wild animals in a public park in Tallahassee ... SS/A
Krietlow was further advised the children were unaware of the function and
purpose of telephones, televisions and toilets, and that the children had stated
they were not allowed to live indoors and were only given food as a reward ...
Upon contacting Detective Bradley, I learned that he had initiated an
investigation on the two addresses provided by the Tallahassee Police Dept.
during December of 1986. An informant had given him information regarding a
cult, known as the Finders operating various businesses out of a warehouse
located at 1307 4th St., N.E., and were supposed to be housing children at
3918/3920 W St., N.W. The information was specific in describing 'blood rituals'
and sexual orgies involving children, and an as yet unsolved murder in which the
Finders may be involved. With the information provided by the informant,
Detective Bradley was able to match some of the children in Tallahassee with
names of children known or alleged to be in the custody of the Finders.
Furthermore, Bradley was able to match the tentative ID of the adults with known
members of the Finders. I stood by while Bradley consulted with AUSA Harry
Benner and obtained search warrants for the two premises. I advised acting RAC
SS/A Tim Halloran of my intention to accompany MPD on the execution of the
warrants, received his permission, and was joined by SS/A Harrold. SS/A Harrold
accompanied the team which went to 1307 4th St., and I went to 3918/20 W St.
During the execution of the warrant at 3918/20 W St., I was able to observe and
access the entire building ... There were several subjects on the premises. Only
one was deemed to be connected with the Finders. [He] was located in a room
equipped with several computers, printers, and numerous documents. Cursory
examination of the documents revealed detailed instructions for obtaining
children for unspecified purposes. The instructions included the impregnation of
female members of the community known as the Finders, purchasing children,
trading, and kidnapping. There were telex messages using MCI account numbers
between a computer terminal believed to be located in the same room, and others
located across the country and in foreign locations. One such telex specifically
ordered the purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a
contact in the Chinese Embassy there. Another telex expressed interest in 'bank
secrecy' situations. Other documents identified interests in high-tech transfers to
the United Kingdom, numerous properties under the control of the Finders, a keen
interest in terrorism, explosives, and the evasion of law enforcement. Also found
in the 'computer room' was a detailed summary of the events surrounding the
arrest and taking into custody of the two adults and six children in Tallahassee the
previous night. There were also a set of instructions which appeared to be
broadcast via a computer network which advised the participants to move 'the
children' and keep them moving through different jurisdictions, and instructions
on how to avoid police attention ...
On Friday, 2/6/87, I met Detective Bradley at the warehouse on 4th Street, N.E. I
duly advised my acting group supervisor, SS/A Don Bludworth. I was again
granted unlimited access to the premises. I was able to observe numerous
documents which described explicit sexual conduct between the members of the
community known as Finders. I also saw a large collection of photographs of
unidentified persons. Some of the photographs were nudes, believed to be of
members of the Finders. There were numerous photos of children, some nude, at
least one of which was a photo of a child 'on display' and appearing to accent the
child's genitals. I was only able to examine a very small amount of the photos at
this time. However, one of the officers presented me with a photo album for my
review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in
white sheets participating in a 'blood ritual.' The ritual centered around the
execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution,
disembowelment, skinning and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the
children. This included the removal of the testes of a male goat, the discovery of
a female goat's womb and the baby goats inside the womb, and the
presentation of a goat's head to one of the children.
Further inspection of the premises disclosed numerous files relating to activities
of the organization in different parts of the world. Locations I observed are as
follows: London, Germany, the Bahamas, J apan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa,
Costa Rica, and 'Europe.' There was also a file identified as 'Palestinian.' Other
files were identified by member name or 'project' name. The projects appearing to
be operated for commercial purposes under front names for the Finders. There
was one file entitled 'Pentagon Break-In,' and others referring to members
operating in foreign countries. Not observed by me but related by an MPD officer
were intelligence files on private families not related to the Finders. The process
undertaken appears to be have been a systematic response to local newspaper
advertisements for babysitters, tutors, etc. A member of the Finders would
respond and gather as much information as possible about the habits, identity,
occupation, etc., of the family. The use to which this information was to be put is
still unknown. There was also a large amount of data collected on various child
care organizations.
The warehouse contained a large library, two kitchens, a sauna, hot-tub, and a
'video room.' The video room seemed to be set up as an indoctrination center. It
also appeared that the organization had the capability to produce its own videos.
There were what appeared to be training areas for children and what appeared to
be an altar set up in a residential area of the warehouse. Many jars of urine and
feces were located in this area.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most people, upon reading this, will
conclude that the practices of the Finders were not in fact merely eccentric. The last time I
checked into it, running an international terrorist organization specializing in the trafficking of
children was definitely illegal. Unless, that is, the organization doing the trafficking is run by
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Group leader Marion Pettie shed additional light on his non-connections to the agency in an
interview with Steamshovel Press in 1998. Recounting the history of his group, Pettie notes
that: Going back to World War II, I kept open house mainly to intelligence people in
Washington. OSS people passing through, things like that.
He wasn't, mind you, an intelligence asset himself. In fact, according to Pettie, he has spent
his entire life trying - as a private citizen - to spy on the spies. As for his wife, he claims he
sent her in as a spy, to spy on the CIA for me. She was very happy about it, happy to tell me
everything she found out. She was in a key place, you know with the records, and she could
find out things for me." I guess Langley has been a little lax on the security lately.
Pettie also acknowledges that his son worked for Air America, which was a proprietary of
the CIA. There are some connections, but not to me personally. Of course not. In fact, Pettie
is something of a CIA watch-dog, proclaiming that he has been studying them since before
they were born.
I was studying them back in the 30's. It was ONI back then [Office of Naval Intelligence],
and then the Coordinator of Information comes on, and after that it turns into the OSS and
OSS turns into the CIAU and the CIAU turns into the CIA. So I've been studying that all of
my life. But I wasn't personally working for them.
Of course he wasn't. I have no idea where anyone would get a crazy notion like that.
Interestingly enough though, this group which claimed no direct connection to the intelligence
community quite obviously had very powerful people within that community protecting it. As
the final Customs Service memo notes:
On Thursday, February 5, 1987, Senior Special Agent Harrold and I assisted the
Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) with two search
warrants involving the possible sexual exploitation of children. During the course
of the search warrants, numerous documents were discovered which appeared to
be concerned with international trafficking in children, high tech transfer to the
United Kingdom, and international transfer of currency.
On March 31, 1987, I contacted Detective J im Bradley of the Washington, DC
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). I was to meet with Detective Bradley to
review the documents seized pursuant to two search warrants executed in J anuary,
1987. The meeting was to take place on April 2 or 3, 1987.
On April 2, 1987, I arrived at MPD at approximately 9:00 a.m. Detective
Bradley was not available. I spoke to a third party who was willing to discuss the
case with me on a strictly 'off the record' basis.
I was advised that all the passport data had been turned over to the State
Department for their investigation. The State Department in turn advised the MPD
that all travel and use of the passports by the holders of the passports was within
the law and no action would be taken. This included travel to Moscow, North
Korea, and North Vietnam from the late 1950s to mid 1970s.
The individual further advised me of circumstances which indicated that the
investigation into the activity of the Finders had become a CIA internal matter.
The MPD report has been classified SECRET and was not available for review. I
was advised that the FBI had withdrawn from the investigation several weeks
prior and that the FBI Foreign Counter Intelligence Division had directed MPD
not to advise the FBI Washington Field Office of anything that had transpired.
The initial arrest of the Finders in Tallahassee, Florida went almost completely unnoticed by
the media. So too did another arrest in that same state in August of 2000, just before Florida
gained newfound fame as the land of the 'hanging chads.' The arrested man was Wayne
Camolli, and the charge was operating an on-line child pornography site.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the West Palm Beach home in which Camolli was
arrested, not unlike the Finders van, was filled with so much rotting garbage, trash and cat
feces that the agents had to borrow oxygen masks and hazardous materials suits from the
county fire department to carry out the search. Seized in the raid were numerous videotapes
and a computer.
The most significant aspect of the arrest is that it was initiated by police investigating
Belgium's most notorious pedophile murder case. It seems that Camolli had close
connections to Felix DeConinck, a suspect in the kidnapping and molestation of a 14-year-
old girl ... [and] DeConinck in turn had links to Marc Dutroux. And so we end up right back
where we began, with the case of the Belgian Beast.
The brief Times report closed by stating that: U.S. officials couldn't elaborate on the
connection between DeConinck and Dutroux, but said they were part of the same child
pornography, molestation and murder investigation. It is unlikely that the press will ever
revisit the case of Wayne Camolli (tellingly, the L.A. Times article has disappeared from the
newspaper's on-line archives).
As with so many other cases, the final words of the Customs memorandum on the Finders
investigation will likely provide the epitaph for this case as well: No further information will
be available. No further action will be taken.
As a final note, it appears that there may be a hidden agenda behind the recent appearance of
a crackdown on internet-based child pornography rings. The Guardian reported in J anuary of
2001 that Interpol has agreed to set up an electronic library of child sex victims at its
headquarters in Lyon, France. The first images to be processed into that database are 750,000
photos seized by British authorities in the Wonderland raids.
While this could represent a sincere effort by law enforcement personnel to gather evidence
against the rings, there could also be a much more sinister goal. As the 2001 Super Bowl
made clear, we are now living in an age when electronic facial recognition systems are being
put to widespread use, meaning that the images of the children stored in Interpols computers
can soon be positively identified.
Could it be that the database being compiled will be utilized as something of a recruitment list
to identify those persons who have been preconditioned - so to speak - for future mind
control operations? Its certainly not beyond the realm of possibility. Interpol has, after all,
been exposed as an illegal organization with distinctively Nazi roots.
Researcher Arlene Tyner has spent a considerable amount of time interviewing and
corresponding with victims of mind control operations. In Probe magazine, she wrote that
some of them were turned over to military/CIA doctors by pedophile fathers or other
sexually abusive relatives. CIA officials also blackmailed family members known to produce
kiddie porn in order to gain control of their already abused and psychologically fragmented
children.
One thing is for certain though. Some day, many of the thousands of victims of the child
pornography rings will come forward to tell harrowing stories of their early childhood abuse.
They will tell of acts of depravity committed against children that are almost beyond human
comprehension and yet their stories will be documented by the images on Interpols
computers.
But how many of them will be believed?
REFERENCES:
1. Bouchard, J oseph E., Ed Bruske, Mary Thorton, J ohn Harris and Linda Wheeler
Officials Describe 'Cult Rituals' in Child Abuse Case, Washington Post, February 7,
1987
2. Davies, Nick and J eevan Vasager Global Porn Ring Broken, Guardian UK,
J anuary 11, 2001
3. Landsberg, Michelle Incest: Stop the Nonsense and Get to the Difficult Truth, The
Toronto Star, February 4, 1996
4. Martinez, Ramon J . Report of Investigation, United States Customs Service
Documents, February 7, 1987; February 12, 1987; April 13, 1987
5. Thomas, Kenn and Len Bracken The Finders' Keeper, Steamshovel Press, Issue
#16, 1998
6. Tyner, Arlene Mind Control Part 3: The Blowback Effect of Brain Tampering,
Probe Magazine, J uly-August, 2000
7. Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary and Ancel Martinez Through a Glass, Very Darkly,
U.S. News and World Report, December 27, 1993 - J anuary 3, 1994
8. Young, Vaughn and Trevor Meldal-J ohnsen The Interpol Connection, Dial Press,
1979
9. Belgian Porn Scandal Leads to Florida Raid, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2000

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